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Dennis Adams's Double Feature is a series of composite "stills" collaged from individual frames grabbed from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1959) and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1965). In these constructed images Jean Seberg walks out of Breathless and into the demonstrations, checkpoints, and skirmishes of the Algerian revolution. Seberg, a flirtatious young American hawking newspapers in Paris, is recast as an allegorical figure wandering the war-torn streets of Algiers, where she traces the fault line between the roles of messenger bearing the news and frontline witness to its making.

Dennis Adams is internationally recognized for his urban interventions and museum installations that reveal historical and political undercurrents in public space and architecture. Over the last two decades he has produced more than fifty projects worldwide in cities from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe, and is included in major public collections both here and abroad. He is currently a Professor in the School of Art at the Cooper Union in New York.

Hardcover, 5 x 7 in.
92 pages, 40 black and white
ISBN: 978-1-878607-77-5
$14.95