Curator’s Office presents Unspoiled, a new exhibition of photographic works by Canadian collaborative team Nicholas & Sheila Pye. It is the fourth exhibition of work by the Pyes at Curator’s Office. Unspoiled four large dramatic photographs.
“The artists Nicolas & Sheila Pye have spent their careers exploring the trials and tribulations as well as tender moments of love. In both film and photography, they have explored broad themes of attachment, gender politics, the ego, and the unspoken wishes and desires that can plague relationships. In their new body of photographic work, the Pyes use nature to tell a different, more mature story of loss, the failings of memory, and the fragility of love. The stylized sets that they once employed in films have been traded in for the serene simplicity of nature. In dense forests and clear streams, themes of connection, loss, and memory are staged in sublimely blissful settings.”
“While memory and loss are prominent themes in this new series, mutual respect emanates from these images. This series tells a tale of remembrance, esteem, homage and perhaps growth. In this forest of the past, there is perhaps the promise of a new and different future. These figures seem to be treading cautiously, but forward nonetheless.”
Jessica Beck, Art historian and Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Program Associate
Nicholas & Sheila Pye: Unspoiled
May 18 – June 22, 2013
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