Editing for Dawn DeDeaux @ the 61st Venice Biennale

Dawn DeDeaux, Two Moons (2021–2026), video projection, Studies of a Meteor: Time & Space, 61st Venice Biennale. Video editing: Dave Greber. Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery.

This spring I served as associate editor on Dawn DeDeaux's installation for the 61st Venice Biennale | part of In Minor Keys, the main exhibition curated by Koyo Kouoh. Her room in the Arsenale, Studies of a Meteor: Time & Space, gathers several recent works around a single trajectory: an asteroid aimed at a spinning meteor fragment above a wooden study desk.

Remote editing sessions with Dawn, spring 2026 | screen-sharing the screen-share. Mocking up early Two Moons framings.

My work was the projection anchoring the room: Two Moons (2021–2026), a montage of two large revolving dead moons split by that asteroid, running about thirteen and a half minutes. "Associate editor" is the official credit; in practice it meant a spring working with Dawn remotely and spent deep in After Effects making it move. Fishpot Studios in New Orleans shot the meteor footage. I built the sequence, the secondary motion, color grading and masking. Installed by my New Orleans buds at Denali Art Solutions.

Two Moons video projection by Dawn DeDeaux, edited by Dave Greber, behind Meteor Study Desk in Studies of a Meteor: Time & Space, 61st Venice Biennale 2026. Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery.

Lava sequence from Two Moons, Dawn DeDeaux's video projection edited by Dave Greber, with Meteor Study Desk, Arsenale, 61st Venice Biennale.

Dawn and I met and have been friends since around 2011, when we both had work in Constant Abrasive Irritation Produces the Pearl, John Otte's legendary Prospect.2 satellite show at The Pearl in the Bywater. A few years later I was living at Camp Abundance, her studio compound (literally on the porch in her studio), while working on Prospect.3. In 2021 she brought me on for video production and mapping on Where's Mary?, the four-channel, 60-foot video wall in her retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Two Moons iterates and grew out of that material foundation.

Dawn DeDeaux, Where's Mary? (2021), four-channel video installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Video production and mapping: Dave Greber. Photo: Jonathan Traviesa.

In Minor Keys runs through November 22, 2026. The moons will still be turning.