Janine Antoni is part of Chase a Crooked Shadow: Film Noir as Contemporary Mirror that considers film noir as an enduring worldview rather than a historical style, tracing its relevance through contemporary art. From the early 1940s through the late 1950s, film noir crystallized not as a genre, but as a style and mood—an atmosphere shaped by moral instability and the growing realization that promises of progress and the American Dream were deeply compromised.
The works are organized into thematic groupings that echo film noir's recurring archetypes and undercurrents: the detective and antihero; the fatal and shifting power dynamic; criminals and the scene of the crime; noir landscapes and environments; violence and the abject body; and psychological states shaped by duplicity, ambiguity, obsession, and entrapment.
This show runs through 18 July, 2026.
