Nothing
Tracey Snelling

Nothing tells the story of a young woman named Jane. She has resigned herself to a life with a man she doesn’t love and a dead-end job as a maid in a small rundown motel. Her one form of escape is to try on the lives of the guests who are staying in the rooms that she cleans.

 
As Jane reluctantly works while dabbling in her role playing game, she comes face to face with her own life in a frightening and honest way.

Set in the heat-soaked town of Twentynine Palms, the desert landscape becomes a character and the film rides the line between art and narrative.

Written and directed by Tracey Snelling.
Presented courtesy the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery.

About the Artist
Through the use of sculpture, photography, video and installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane.

Snelling has shown work in museums such as Gemeentemuseum Helmond (the Netherlands), Shanghai Zendai MOMA (China), The Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Germany), El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica (Columbia) and Stenersen Museet (Norway). She has had solo exhibitions throughout the US as well as in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, and London, and has been awarded residencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Her large-scale installation Woman on the Run was originally commissioned by Selfridges, London during Frieze 2008, and has traveled throughout the US. Snelling presently has a solo exhibition at Aeroplastics Contemporary in Brussels, and will have one at Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco in December.

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