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Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, "Swinburne's Pasiphae" (2014), single channel HD video with sound, 8 minutes 58 seconds (edition of 6 + 2 AP), inv. #MRK132.04, courtesy of the artists, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, Vielmetter Los Angeles and Pilar Corrias, London; premiered 2014 at Pilar Corrias, London. A performance of Algernon Charles Swinburne's (1865) poem "Pasiphaë" (Pasiphae1.0024_Swinburne); cf. Swinburne's "Masque of Queen Bersabe" (1862), which included Pasiphaë.

Reviews of Reid Kelley's work:
Apollo Magazine, 2014
W Magazine
and especially by J. Cahill (2015), "A Wandering Will: Mary Reid Kelley Discusses Swinburne's "Pasiphae", LARB.org

Images at right from "Swinburne's Pasiphaë": agonized Cretan queen / consultation with Daedalus. (Photos courtesy of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley are used by permission.)