“An investigation into what it is to bring things together.”
Artist James Richards’s practice encompasses expanded film, video, and installation. His provocative and visually seductive moving-image works collage together a wide range of source material, ranging from intimate home movies, archival footage, and television signals to rich musical soundtracks. Richards explores the intersection of technology, identity, and human experience to examine themes of obsession and desire in immersive and multi-layered narratives. Although his practice cannily addresses the relentless flow of imagery in the twenty-first century, it also carves a singular space where the personal, political, and digital meet. “The core of my work is an investigation into what it is to bring things together—using collage or the edit as a compositional or writerly tool,” says Richards, who often collaborates with other artists either as composer, visual artist, or curator.
