In the seven recent videos included in this exhibition, Emily Newman – who was born in Singapore, identifies as American, and currently resides in Russia – Presents a self-portrait that also functions, at its best, as a cultural inquiry. Mainly through informally shot footage of her young son, Isaac, and of Saint Petersburg, Newman examines the vicissitudes of cultural assimilation. The videos, which range from four to twenty minutes in length, do not feature a traditional narrative structure, and instead use occasional intertitle card and brief on-screen text to help orient the viewer. Not knowing immediately what they are looking at, viewers have the opportunity to identify with the videos’ culturally uprooted subjects and to better understand the artists’ own investigation. Often, however, the lack of narrative thrust parallels what seems like a lack of conceptual direction. It is of course difficult to navigate a foreign culture and fully understand its mores. But here such notions were not presented with enough artistic panache to stave off a one-word follow-up question: “And?”