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James Nizam
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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James Nizam embraces a continuously shifting emphasis in his work between photography and sculpture, and in himself as photographer or sculptor. Working in homes and buildings slated for demolition, he photographs the constructions he creates there. In the process he redefines their function from a sheltering to an aesthetic one. The rooms become backdrops for the discarded contents and architectural debris – doors, cabinets, light fixtures, etc. – that he accumulates and constructs into elegant forms of sculptural complexity. Because they will be destroyed when the buildings are demolished it gives their photographs an urgent temporality. It acknowledges the relationship of architecture to the body and the interior to the self, and recognizes the human drama of displacement, the power of transformation, and the poignancy of memory.
Born in Bedfordshire, England, James Nizam now lives and works in Vancouver. Since completing a B.F.A. at the University of British Columbia in 2002, his work has been exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. Upcoming exhibitions include Lennox Contemporary Gallery and Birch Libralato Gallery (Toronto), Kathleen Cullen Fine Art (New York), Galerie Art Mur (Montréal), and Griffin Photography Museum (Boston). Most recently acquired for the Bank of Montreal Collection, his work is also included in private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe, and has been reviewed or published in Flash Forward, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, Vancouver Review, The Vancouver Sun, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, and The Georgia Straight.