Vijay Masharani and Justine Neuberger
For Paris Internationale Clima presents a project by American multidisciplinary artist Vijay Masharani in dialogue with new canvases by Justine Neuberger.
Masharani’s video works show his journey through the Indo-Caribbean neighborhood of Richmond Hill, Queens, in Give me that fucking content, Universe, 2023 and in Errant Lesson, 2020-21, a close-up on kids playing soccer taken from a warehouse window in Queen. The works are threaded by the artist’s anxious, meandering, self-surveilled journey through a confused synthesis of virtual and urban space, itself anthropomorphized into a fungible, menacing, corporeal terrain.
On the walls, Neuberger’s paintings will donate a non-sequential narration through her journey in this imaginary world constellated by figures, object and dreamy scene. Her philosophical approach to painting rotates around the Deleuze’s concept of time and memory where the composition, results by the accumulation of paint layers, reminds to an indefinite spatial experience both universal and personal.
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Give me that fucking content, Universe, 2023
In Fall 2022 Maharani moved back to New York after a year in London for graduate school. Upon returning, he attempted to restage the opening sequence to Mourning in advance: He visited the same neighborhoods with a similar helmet rig. However, this time, the Halloween tableaus left him wanting, so the Artist began searching for other approaches in an attempt to salvage the shoot, ultimately recording a sequence of voice memos that would capture the manic, searching mood of the daytrip. These voice recordings structure this video, which playfully alludes to classical dialec- tics of form and content, particular and universal, subject and totality.
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Mourning in advance
2021-2022
Single channel video, r/t 21 minutes
Edition of 5 + 2AP
watch the video here
Errant Lesson
2020-21
Single channel video , r/t 4 minutes
Ed. Unique + 2AP
watch video here
Cleft Rove Sequence with Nested Astonishment, 2023
single-channel video
runtime 20:53
Edition of 5 + 2AP
watch the video here
Vijay Masharani (b.1995 Bay Area, CA) is an artist living and working in New York, US. He recei- ved his BFA in Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 and he received an MA in Race, Ethnicity, Postcolonial Studies from University College, London in 2022.
Masharani showed at: Cherry Hill, Cologne, hatred 2, New York (solo show), Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, Shoot the Lobster, Los Angeles, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York ,Interstate Projects, New York, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (double solo show), High-Tide, Philadelphia, PA (double solo show), Drawer NYC, New York, Mery Gates, Brooklyn, New York, Clima, Milan (solo show), Like a Little Disaster / Pane Projects, Polignano a mare, IT.
Recent screenings include: Studies in Unlikeability, Halle Fur Kunst, Luneburg, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor; Titanik Gallery, Turku.
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Justine Neuberger’s paintings embody fantasy and the examination of rituals from a contemporary perspective. One can see the influence of Dutch artworks in her compositions, with faces recalling the portraiture of Jan van Eyck and the grand, auratic seascapes of Ludolf Bakhuizen, whose storms often become pure energetic fields. Following suit, Neuberger’s paintings are characterized by their swirling dispositions. Her intuitive gestures are propelled by an understanding of space and the emotional consequences of color.
Sky Tumblers
2023
Oil on canvas
147x183 cm / 58x72 in
Cartographers
2023
Oil on canvas
117x117 cm / 46x46 in
Time Fetish initiated by “Don’t Worry, Be Vegan, Make Pace”
2023
Oil on canvas
162,5x155 cm / 64x61 in
Neuberger received her BA in Studio Art and Art History at Oberlin College, OH in 2015 and her MA in TESOL in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: Static from the Angelic Waveband, Hales, New York (2024); Riddles for Storytellers, Clima, Milan (2023); Blue Paintings, 15 Orient, New York (2022); Firmament of Time, Clima, Milan (2021); The Green World, 15 Orient, New York (2019).
Neuberger’s work has been featured in numerous recent group exhibitions including: Short- term pleasure, Long-term pain, Public Gallery, London, UK (2023); Le Biscuit a Soupe, High Art, Arles; a somewhat thin line, In Lieu, Los Angeles; Apple in the Dark, Harkawik, New York; Emotional Intelligence, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2022); Visual Unpredictability, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York; Uno, Nessuno, Centomila at Pallazo Capris, Turin; The Frog Show, Real Pain, New York; Free Fall, Shoot the Lobster, Los Angeles (2021); Monster, curated by Liam Considine, Svetlana, New York; Night Shift, 17 Essex Gallery, New York (2020).