NYAB Event - James Nares “Portraits”

James Nares “Portraits”

Paul Kasmin Gallery

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Paul Kasmin Gallery announces James Nares: PORTRAITS, an exhibition of eleven new videos on view at 293 Tenth Avenue, New York. PORTRAITS debuts the artist’s first body of video work since he created his iconic video STREET in 2011. In his latest works, the relationship of the camera to the subject is switched as the he changes his role from street photographer to portraitist

Using a camera specifically developed by Fastec Imaging to have cinematic applications as well as the technical and scientific for which they are best known, the artist captured sitters including Amy Taubin Douglas Crimp, Glenn O’Brien, Jim Jarmusch, Walter Robinson and his daughters, Sasha, Zarina and Jahanara, against a simple backdrop allowing the viewer to focus entirely on the subject.

Filmed at several hundred frames per second, each video ranges between eleven and thirty-five minutes in length and is displayed on close to life-sized, ultra-high definition monitors that render minute details with infinite precision and reveal a boundless complexity of thoughts, emotions, and movement. By engaging the subject with the lens, Nares deepens the viewers sense of connection with the work, and offers an opportunity to observe the sitter in a way that may owe more to painting than still photography. “A still photograph is a lie,” says the artist. “People are not merely a single moment in time.”