▲ SOLO EXHIBITION @ BIRCH CONTEMPORARY ( TORONTO )
CURIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Opening: June 13 · 2013 ⁄ 5 – 8pm
Exhibition: June 13 – July 20 · 2013
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Curious Perspectives, James Nizam’s third solo exhibition at Birch Contemporary, opens with a title aptly borrowed from French mathematician Jean François Niceron’s 1638 treatise on the practical applications of perspective. As in La Perspective Curieuse, Nizam’s work demonstrates an affinity for natural magic: an alchemy of position and perspective, light and shadow, and of temporality, sequence, and technique. Just as Niceron held that optics are as much concerned with illusion as they are with the distinct properties of light, Nizam’s work occupies a complex physical and temporal space where perspective is both, a precise science and a natural magic. It is exactly here, in Nizam’s own view, that the unique position of the lens in time and space may capture our curiosity. “Curious”, then, does not regard the optical trick but, instead, evokes imaginary perspectives; immaterial and material coalesce in a series of photographic works – each carrying a quality of the impossible.
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Birch Contemporary
129 Tecumseth Street
Toronto Canada M6J 2H2
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