Jim C. Nedd “A Particular Plan For This World,” takes its identify from the music I Have a Particular Plan for This World, by the British band Present 93. The music explores a nihilistic imaginative and prescient through which the vocalist, having misplaced every little thing, enacts a mysterious plan in direction of nothingness or extinction. Reflecting this sentiment, the pictures within the exhibition emerge from a interval in Nedd’s life when he too nearly misplaced every little thing. Quoting Weegee’s Bare Metropolis (1945), Nedd emphasizes, “to me, {a photograph} is a web page from life, and as such, it should be actual.” The truth of the artist at the moment was marked by an inexplicable pressure that regularly pulled him, seemingly with out cause, into city eventualities with which he had no connection—cities emptied of their residents, the place he captured photos of uncooked, unguarded moments; moments reveal- ing how actuality typically hides in silent corners reasonably than in folks’s phrases.

Over time, the pictures Nedd amassed revealed a transparent sample, one typically specializing in the formal qualities of pictures whereas evoking unconscious narratives that proceed to shock him. He assembled these photos into an untitled dummy guide, permitting it to evolve, and sometimes sharing items from it at exhibitions over the previous yr. Now, at Damien & The Love Guru, this assortment is introduced with new work as a solo exhibition for the primary time.

Neither these areas nor Nedd felt the necessity to present the coordinates at which these photos have been made, as his reminiscence is extra precisely situated within the blunt style of Vogue Bleue Slims on his tongue, and the unusual fragrance he at all times wore—Crystal Haze. This perfume appeared to encapsulate the unstable essence of that point, when notions of north and south had misplaced all that means. Nedd was unaware of how absence had change into each his shadow and his topic in all of his houses, and he admits he by no means actually cared.

at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels
till November 2, 2024