an amazing exhibition of 3 projections at the Baltic Gateshead. Jesper Just. Just brilliant.
'Infused with an ambiguity that allows for many potential readings, Just's films explore atmosphere and the moment. The earliest work in the exhibition, Bliss and Heaven 2004, an encounter between an older and younger man, marks a phase in Just’s practice when the artist exclusively used male protagonists, raising questions about gender politics and the gaze. In A Vicious Undertow 2007, turns to women and a highly charged pas de trios takes place between a whistling older woman protagonist and a younger couple. In Just's most recent work, Sirens of Chrome 2010, there is a stillness in this work in a medium that is never still, as five African-American women conduct an abstracted encounter in an apparently otherwise deserted car park. All three works in the exhibition play with the idea of spectacle to question human stereotypes. They offer an insight into the geography of emotional life and, ultimately, the human condition.'
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