DURHAM, NC.- The Nasher Museum presents nine new media works by seven international artists from the Miami-based Rubell Family Collection. The works, all DVD video projections, examine the impact of dramatic historical change on individual, cultural and national identity. The nine works in the exhibition embody deeply felt personal responses to national trauma and the effects of globalization.

The seven video artists are William Kentridge of South Africa; Sigalit Landau who lives and works in Israel; Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, who was born in Tokyo and lives in Vietnam; Norwegian artist Sven Pahlsson; Albania-born Anri Sala who lives in Paris; Fiona Tan of Indonesia; and Artur Zmijewski who lives in Warsaw, Poland.

Co-curated by Luisa Lagos and Mark Coetzee, curator of The Rubell Family Collection, this exhibition has been seen at the Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University and traveled to The Rubell Family Collection in Miami and to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, College of Art + Design, in Washington, D.C. The works are part of The Rubell Family Collection.

Sprawlville (Sven Pahlsson, 2002, 13 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
Facing Forward (Fiona Tan, 1999, 11 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
Intervista (Anri Sala, 1998, 26 minutes, color, mono sound, DVD video projection)
Ubu Tells the Truth (William Kentridge, 1997, 8 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
History of the Main Complaint (William Kentridge, 1996, 5 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
Felix in Exile (William Kentridge, 1994, 8 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards (Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba, 2001, 13-minute loop, color, sound, DVD video projection)
Our Songbook (Artur Zmijewski, 2003, 13 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection)
Barbed Hula (Sigalit Landau, 2001, 1 minute and 48 seconds, color, sound, DVD projection)

The Rubell Family Collection is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world and includes a research library with more than 30,000 volumes. Exhibited in a converted 45,000-square-foot former D.E.A. confiscated-goods warehouse, it is a permanent museum of the Rubells’ extensive collection of work dating from the 1960s to the present. Open to the public since 1996, the collection features rotating exhibitions of work by such prominent artists as Maurizio Cattelan, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Charles Ray, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Gregor Schneider and Cindy Sherman. The collection began soon after Don and Mera Rubell were married in 1964. At a relatively young age, their son, Jason and their daughter, Jennifer, joined their parents in expanding the collection.