‘Garrett Bradley: Revolutions’ at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

7 May 2025

From 14 June – 7 September 2025, Eye Filmmuseum presents ‘Garrett Bradley: Revolutions' the first European solo museum exhibition by US artist and Oscar nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley. The exhibition invites visitors into her world: a rich blend of engagement and artistic experimentation, in which she critically examines (film) history and image-making from a contemporary perspective. In 2023, Bradley was awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize.

Garrett Bradley explores how images help shape our view of the world. She is particularly interested in the ways America is represented through visual culture. Spanning narrative, documentary, and experimental forms of filmmaking, this exhibition reflects the artist’s turn towards abstraction and the increasingly sculptural nature of her work. The artist invites us to take a step back and consider the following question: what are we actually looking at? In doing so, she makes the viewer aware of the pitfalls of representation and unpacks the mechanisms that influence how we perceive ourselves and others.

The exhibition 'Revolutions' takes its title from the various forms of revolution present in Garrett Bradley’s work. A revolution can refer to a political shift in power, but also to a cycle, like the Earth rotating on its axis as the days pass. Bradley’s work reveals the revolutionary potential of the everyday – the change that small acts of resistance can bring about.

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Image: Garrett Bradley, Safe, 2022, Three-channel video, HD (colour, black and white, surround sound), © Garrett Bradley, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.