Kota Ezawa’s “Odessa Staircase Redux,” the artist’s third solo exhibition at Haines Gallery, revisits the influential film montage from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” as a series of ink drawings. The drawings are based on the first frame of every cut in the Odessa Staircase sequence, while the photographs reconstruct the same frames with the help of actors. In the exhibition, the individual film frame renderings are taken out of their original sequence and are reorganized into groups of related images. In this way, “Odessa Staircase Redux” meditates on the photographic quality of an ink drawing and on the constructed nature of a photograph.

Opening reception with artist: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A book will accompany this exhibition: Odessa Staircase Redux published by JRP Ringier/ECU Press, 170 pages.