Monster in Me: The Video Work of Cecelia Condit
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Over the course of four decades, artist Cecelia Condit’s video work has dissected the psychologies of the feminine, the suburban, and the natural worlds. Her 1983 work Possibly in Michigan—brought to new audiences in recent years by its vast recirculation on social media—reminds us of the dark possibilities within the exterior and interior worlds of women; its resurgence speaks to the perpetual cycles of violence women continue to experience . This selection of Condit’s work traces the ideas the artist has explored throughout her career and includes a premiere of two recent works: Monster in Me and A Parable of Now.
A conversation with Cecelia Condit and Assistant Curator Patricia Ledesma Villon follows the screening.
Beneath the Skin, 1981, US, digital, 12 min.
Possibly in Michigan, 1983, US, digital, 12 min.
Suburbs of Eden, 1992, US digital, 15 min.
Pulling Up Roots, 2015, Ireland, digital, 7 min.
A Parable of Now, 2025, US, digital, 11 min.
Monster in Me, 2025, US, digital, 8 min.
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Since 1981, Cecelia Condit’s videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her “feminist fairy tales” focus on friendships, age, and the natural world. She has shown internationally in festivals, museums, and alternative spaces, and is represented in collections including the Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris. She received the 2024 Stan Brakhage Vision Award for expanding the boundaries of personal cinema. She has earned awards at film festivals, as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mary L. Nohl Foundation. She is professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she served as the director of the graduate program in film for 30 years. She lives in Minnesota.
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Dates & Tickets
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Thu May 07, 2026
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