Film
29 April 2016 — ongoing
Film (Whitney Museum of American Art), 2026
as part of the Whitney Biennial 2026
Curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
8 March — 23 August 2026
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Double Feature with Short Subject, 2023 — ongoing
Curated by Matthew Witkowski
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
25 May — 9 October 2024
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Film (Basel Social Club), 2023
11 — 18 June 2023
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Film (Fluentum), 2021
as part of the group exhibition Time Without End
Curated by Dennis Brzek & Junia Thiede
Fluentum, Berlin, DE
14 September — 11 December 2021
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Film (Fahrbereitschaft), 2017 — 2018
as part of the exhibition la > x margaret honda, stephen prina, christopher williams
15 September 2017 — 3 March 2018
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Film (Visitor Welcome Center), 2017
Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, USA
8 — 29 July 2017
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Film (SpazioA), 2017
as part of the group exhibition Waiting for the Sun
Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
13 May — 8 September 2017
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Film (Künstlerhaus Bremen), 2016
as part of Margaret Honda – An Answer to 'Sculptures'
Curated by Tenzing Barshee and Fanny Gonella
29 April — 30 June 2016
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Margaret Honda's site-specific Films work with sunlight, existing architecture, and the viewer’s presence to reconfigure standard elements of film projection. Honda is interested in the materials and mechanics of analog motion picture production rather than its capacity for telling stories, and she uses existing structures and environmental conditions as the basis for her interventions.
For Film she works with cinema lighting gels, which come in manufactured sets in a range of colors and tones and typically serve to adjust the color temperature of a given scene. Identical in size, the gels function as film frames, and each window frame forms a reel of film. Instead of a projector, the sun provides light while visitors lend motion to the work, frame by frame, as they pass through the space. Moviegoers typically sit still, in the dark, and watch a single film from beginning to end. Here, the viewers are instead in motion, the space itself is full of light, and the films can be viewed more or less at once—forwards or backwards. The full duration of the installation functions as an extended single screening, open-ended and unrepeatable.
