Critical Writing Index

Time Takes Time: James Nares transforms two-and-a-half minutes into an exquisite eternal present

by Chris Chang

Film Comment Magazine, July 2013, p. 19

Chris Chan describes the video work of painter James Nares. Nares's 1976 short video "Pendulum" is described as having a structural affinity with his bold, single-stroke abstract paintings. The author spends most of the article discussing Nares's video "Street," which the author included in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The video shows the hustle and bustle of Manhattan decelerated and takes slowness to the extreme.

ITEM 2013.084 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

PendulumJames Nare

StreetJames Nare