What Pipeline

What Pipeline is inordinately excited to present House Set Sun, a new two-person show with works by Anne Speier & Lucie Stahl. The artists have both returned to Detroit for the show. Speier previously performed Lurk -Hive Balance solo in 2014. Stahl last appeared in Detroit in 2013, partnered with Tom Humphreys as part of Holes, What Pipeline’s inaugural show. What Pipeline will have been open for ten years in April 2023? . . . In conclusion, driving is a pilgrimage back to ourselves. We are trying to survive; the future is over there. Movies aren't our ticket; they are comments on our future. The film doesn't depict a catastrophe. It comments on life as a catastrophe. Drive along a highway, a typical American scene. Look out the back window. Stahl depicts dusk or post-apocalypse, but it could be either. The auburn sun's rays refract through the defects and dirt on the windshield to obscure the landscape. Beyond the tempered glass, only hot and cool gradients are visible. The rear-view display is superimposed over what is seen through the windshield, just like in Hitchcock's Psycho, where the mirror was a photo that had been crudely shaped into a rectangle and pasted onto the scene. The future, the present, and the past are all contained within a 2D picture that can be safely seen from inside the metal cage of a car. The past is in the rear view, protected from curiosity by glass, and the future is in the front window. It combines a fantasy (driving is a vehicle for freedom) with a self-reflective analogy concerning individualism and selfishness. There are cars on the road behind us, honking. Advertisements line the highway, shouting for our attention. Digital, right in front of us. As she drives past these...