Shahryar Nashat: An Image is an Orphan
<p>Rigged to a free-standing display system, close but not touching the wall nor grounded, eight screens stand on their side, upright, sealed in a grid. Together their 8, 16:9 aspect ratios form a 5:4 aspect ratio. The unknown aspect a provocation to the now. The now, a provocation unto itself. On either side a speaker, by the entrance/exit door a subwoofer faces the screens, the body. The image holds the body. The space between simulation and failure holds the image. The words: “an image is a hustler” resonate. Shahryar Nashat’s <em>An Image is an Orphan</em> is a newly commissioned 18’22” HD video with sound, the core piece within Nashat’s solo exhibition <em>The Cold Horizontals</em> at Kunsthalle Basel. Below are notes on the content of the video and its mediation.</p>
Authors: Ian Wooldridge
Subject: Shahryar Nashat
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Art Director: Sabo Day
Code: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISBN: 22979220
ISSN: 2297-9220