Megan and Murray McMillan

Megan McMillan was born 1975 in Dallas, TX

Murray McMillan was born in 1973 in Dallas, TX

Both live and work in Providence, RI
Married in 1997, collaborating since 2002

Megan received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA and her BA from St. Edwards University, Austin, TX

Murray received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

www.meganandmurraymcmillan.com

Qbox Gallery, Athens, Greece

Megan and Murray McMillan produce interrelated video, installations, and photographs that delve into the nature of performance and the history of representation. Their process begins with large, sculptural sets that serve as the site and material for short videos of choregraphed movements of actors and friends, gallery installations, and photographs. The notion of performance is front and center in these works in both subject matter and their impressive, large-scale gallery installations that double as sets. In each project, the distinction between ‘real’ performance and ‘staged’ performance is blurred.

The McMillans ask us to question the real, to think about the nature of representation as it flits through different media—installation, photography, performance, and video—not unlike the way life is presented to us everyday. Is something more or less real when we only know of it through facebook or from an iPhone, or even that retro medium, television? And how do different forms of historical representation inform our reading of images today?