Anne Imhof, the German artist known for her large-scale, immersive performance pieces, returned to New York after nearly ten years with Doom: House of Hope, her largest show to date. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and running for a week at The Park Avenue Armory, Doom brought together a cast of nearly sixty actors, dancers, and musicians into a three-hour marathon performance loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Here, however, the story was told in reverse—beginning with the doomed lovers’ suicide and culminating with their first encounter—set not in Verona but in an unplaceable dreamscape of American youth.
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