Luzie Meyer’s work often begins with acts of translation between forms, registers, and temporalities, confounding the creation of performance with performance itself. Meyer is particularly interested in moments where the fiction of performance falters: where a gesture becomes too slow, too fast, too emphatic, or misaligned with expectations. Through repetition, delay, and subtle shifts in presentation, she surfaces the latent structures that shape how meaning is communicated or withheld. Language is also central to Meyer’s films, approached not as a tool but as a medium. The subjects and characters she creates move fluidly between poetry and prose, between script and improvisation; through their use, words lose and accumulate gravity, becoming familiar or alienating. Instrumental interventions punctuate her films, lending a tone or rhythm to the spoken word. Throughout her work, Meyer forces viewers and listeners to become attuned to the textures of repetition, the gaps between sign and sense, and the labor of both performance and interpretation.

Witherall is a presentation of recent films, alongside a selection of related photographs. The films range from The Trout, a two-minute work from 2018, to Meyer’s latest film Voir Dire, recently exhibited in the group exhibition Caught in a Landslide at KINDL, Berlin and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Three photographs related to Voir Dire and one 2019 photograph from Meyer’s first solo exhibition at Sweetwater are also included in the exhibition.