Persistent Illusions, 2024, Video Still
Persistent Illusions
Jason File
May 31 - June 18, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 6-9pm
NARS Project Space
Persistent Illusions examines the conditions giving rise to mass atrocities through the lens of a Hague war crimes trial and the moving image evidence used as proof in court. Juxtaposing real trial footage of the artist cross-examining a politician with the VHS tapes played in court, this two-channel video installation invites the audience to sit as a jury—perhaps to determine what we can know from video as a medium itself.
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Jason File (1976, USA) is an artist, practicing lawyer and former United Nations war crimes prosecutor whose art practice uses legal materials and contexts to explore the poetics of systems of justice, property and power. His work has been shown at institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery (London); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Historical Museum of Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo); and Stroom (The Hague). A graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design (London), the Royal Academy of Art (Netherlands), and Yale Law School, Jason is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York.
NARS exhibition programs are made possible in part through the generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and, in part, supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
