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VIDEO ARTWORK

things only partially seen (2020–21) reflects Nechama Winston’s thoughts on the incompleteness of things—of thoughts, ideas, notes, collected research, and texts. The artist was inspired by the way incompleteness is discussed in the essay conversation between Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and Stevphen Shukaitis in e-flux journal #116 (March 2021). Moten, Harney, and Shukaitis talk about time lags and rhythmic irregularities in writing and creating. Moten states: "We use the gaps and pauses as ways to think more clearly and more effectively with one another and by way of one another and past the separation of one another. There's a rhythm. Definitely. But it's an irregular rhythm." The film footage was taken during Winston’s subway commutes throughout the pandemic in 2020–2021, and the text was compiled from poem excerpts she collected during this period.

Bio

Nechama Winston is a NYC-based multidisciplinary artist who explores the philosophical implications of photography to form alternative political imaginaries. Using mostly black-and-white film, her current focus is on how material darkness fosters an enhanced bodily awareness of vision. Winston often produces work in black and white as a method of abstraction, investigating how experiences can be conveyed in nonlinear ways through space. Her process also involves creating images through editing and montaging archival research, still images, and video⁠—both self-made and found. She often interweaves personal with collective political experiences and memories. Winston has exhibited at the ICP Museum (NYC), the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), and the University of Oslo (Norway). She is the co-founder and editor of New Poetics Publishing and works at Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC. She received an MFA from Bard College-International Center of Photography and a BA in Art History and Behavioral Neuroscience from CUNY Hunter College, NYC.