Artists

Sara Cwynar

Press release

The Approach is pleased to present Baby Blue Benzo by Sara Cwynar. The exhibition will centre on her new film of the same name which combines newly produced video and photographs with found images amassed in her archive. The principal scenes for Baby Blue Benzo were filmed at a studio in Los Angeles, where Cwynar staged a surrealistic shoot — featuring two sets of circular camera tracks — with massive props and elaborate historical costumes that became a kind of stand-in for the artifice and arbitrariness of composing images. The artwork's central visual pillar is a replica of the titular 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, which is to date the most expensive car to be sold at auction. Cwynar incorporates filmed representations of herself in the Benz, of hired models and crew, and of friends and collaborators. To complement Baby Blue Benzo, a series of related photographs will be installed in The Annexe.