Marian Goodman Gallery London is presenting an exhibition of works by Dara Birnbaum, with special focus on her large-scale video installations from the 1990s. The exhibition runs until 12 January 2019. Birnbaum’s practice has long been concerned with the lexicon of broadcasting and communication and the way ‘truths’ are delivered to the viewer. An early proponent of video art, Birnbaum began by isolating imagery from television, recontextualising it in an attempt to understand its true meaning. For the first time since her major 2009/2010 travelling retrospective, The Dark Matter of Media Light, the three works Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission, 1990, Transmission Tower: Sentinel, 1992 and Hostage, 1994, are being shown together. All three pieces were made in response to major political events in the latter part of the 20th century, as
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