Hounds of Love
March 17 — April 23, 2022
New York: 24th Street
An image that is not just an image, but closer to a thing that it is also not—flesh—is visible some-where in every room. Like the red eye of a camera, it follows your movements and tracks your status in relation to an open wound. It shares its title, Boyfriend.JPEG, with all the other works in the exhibition because they too describe something that they are not: not a boyfriend but a jpeg; not a presence but its format, that is to say, its absence. Are you following? This is obviously about love.
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About
Photo by Gaëtan Malaparte.
Shahryar Nashat's practice explores the relationship between the human body and new technologies, often placing the two in conversation to highlight the vulnerability and adaptability of the human form. With video installations, paintings and sculptures, Nashat gets at the very experience of what it means to be a body at a moment when the technologies that filter experience encourage fragmentation and distance. Desire, mortality, fragility, and resilience are among the thematic concerns his work addresses. He has had solo shows at numerous institutions internationally, including MASI Lugano (2024); The Art Institute of Chicago (2023); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago with Bruce Hainley (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Portikus, Frankfurt (2016); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (with Adam Linder, 2016).
