NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery presents their tenth exhibition of work by Karen Kilimnik. For this occasion, Kilimnik shows her influential 1989 installation “The Hellfire Club episode of the Avengers.” A mise-en-scene based on the 1960s British television series “The Avengers,” the installation is an arrangement of xeroxes, photographs and props framed by velvet curtains and two impenetrably black drawings of British manor houses. Several nearly life-size photocopies of the stars of The Avengers (Emma Peel and John Steed) are part of the tableau, as if bringing the episode to life. Gold frames, mirrors, cobwebs, swords, an ax; these elements combine with a pea, The Beatles, and other stereotypically British imagery, forming the artist’s own portrait of the already artifical tenets that made the television show so engaging. The show’s soundtrack is similarly collaged to reflect the show’s feeling, using edited snippets of Haydn