Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle October 5, 2012

The artist is well known for employing high production value cinematography to create film works that subvert the usual stereotypes that have come to be associated with Hollywood's mainstream film industry. The exhibition will mark the NY premiere of two recent works: 'Sirens of Chrome' (2010) filmed in Detroit and 'This Nameless Spectacle' (2011) filmed in Paris. The artist is also producing a new work for the exhibition. 'Sirens of Chrome' is a single channel video presentation to be installed in the gallery's front space. Installed in the gallery's main space, Just's two-channel work 'This Nameless Spectacle' takes its title from American poet William Carlos Williams' poem 'The Right of Way.' In this poem Williams describes the fascination with which we observe anonymous actions, the "nameless spectacles" which surround us every day, everywhere. In the film, Just tracks his two protagonists through Paris' famous Buttes Chaumont park.