You The Better
1983 · 16mm film (color, sound; 30 min.) and props
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Museum of Modern Art
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Ericka Beckman
American, 1951
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Ericka Beckman makes videos, performances, and installations that use repetition, formal patterning, and fragmented narrative to investigate the relationship between language, image, and gesture. Working since the 1970s, she has developed a practice rooted in the destabilization of linear storytelling through non-linear structure and embodied movement. Her work probes how meaning emerges from abstraction and linguistic slippage rather than conventional narrative progression.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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