Jesper Just's 'This Nameless Spectacle' at James Cohan Gallery explores loaded landscapes through three video works

From September 6 to October 27, 2012, Jesper Just showcased three video pieces at James Cohan Gallery in the exhibition titled 'This Nameless Spectacle.' The videos, filmed in Detroit, Paris, and California's Llano desert, consist of 'Sirens of Chrome' (2010), which features four African-American women in Detroit; 'This Nameless Spectacle' (2011), which portrays a woman in a wheelchair in Paris; and 'Llano' (2012), which investigates a Socialist colony in the desert. Each work lasts between seven and thirteen minutes and emphasizes visual subtleties without spoken words. Just, a Danish artist residing in New York, has previously displayed his work at the Brooklyn Museum in 2008. The exhibition's title is inspired by a line from a poem by William Carlos Williams.