Glen Fogel’s With Me… You is a new five-channel video installation, shown in conjunction with a series of large-scale paintings of intimate letters written to the artist. Using the photography and display style of Home Shopping Network as a starting point, Fogel embarked on a project to videotape wedding and engagement rings in his family’s possession. Going back to his great grandmother’s engagement ring, to the rings of his mother and sister, the installation spans four generations.

Glen Fogel’s With Me… You is a new five-channel video installation, shown in conjunction with a series of large-scale paintings of intimate letters written to the artist. Using the photography and display style of Home Shopping Network as a starting point, Fogel embarked on a project to videotape wedding and engagement rings in his family’s possession. Going back to his great grandmother’s engagement ring, to the rings of his mother and sister, the installation spans four generations.

Critic Nathan Lee has noted: “Mounted on a gyroscopic mechanism and shot against a variety of monochromatic backgrounds through a star filter, the video monumentalizes family heirlooms. At once sinuous and sinister, luxurious and melancholy, the work is an extension of recent projects in which Fogel reads highly personal materials (love letters, portraits of lovers) through spectacular, politically fraught representations (TV crime dramas, political rallies). With Me… You forefronts a tense ambivalence between the ring as beloved familial artifact and symbol of state-sponsored relations.”