| LUIS GISPERT |
Brooklyn-based Luis Gispert earned a B.F.A. from the University of Chicago in 1996 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 2001. Gispert’s elaborately staged photographs, films, and booming sound sculptures have been widely exhibited in museums throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Gispert was chosen to participate in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, where his multimedia installation piece earned him rising-star status. His work has been acquired by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Miami Art Museum, among other public collections.
A sculptor, photographer and highly accomplished filmmaker, Gispert explores youth culture, hip-hop, and his own Cuban-American background using imagery inspired by art history, Italian horror movies and science fiction films of the 70s and 80s. Cinematically staged and technically polished, Gispert’s surreal narratives obliquely comment on issues of ethnicity, youth, power and beauty.
Enter the 11th Chamber is the third in a series entitled Sneaking into Backyards, which Gispert began in 1999. Working in and around Miami, he looked for houses with fenced or walled backyards, snuck in, and photographed something that could not be seen from the street. An “accomplice” in a getaway car meanwhile photographed Gispert entering in order to document the action. The title, Enter the 11th Chamber, derives from the Wu Tang Clan Album, Enter the 36 Chambers, with the 36 replaced by an 11, the day Gispert was born. Another print of this photograph was included in the exhibition, Publikulture, held at the Fort Lauderdale Museum in 2000.
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