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Shahryar Nashat — Still from Hustle in Hand (detail)
Shahryar Nashat

Still from Hustle in Hand (detail)

2014

A still extracted from Shahryar Nashat's 2014 digital video work Hustle in Hand presents a fragment of the artist's sustained inquiry into the body as object, commodity, and spectacle. Nashat's practice gravitates toward the charged intersection of desire and clinical detachment, and this detail sustains that tension with precision, isolating a moment from a work that interrogates how bodies are staged, consumed, and circulated within systems of image production. The color and sound dimensions of the original video carry over into the still's residual energy, making the work feel simultaneously frozen and kinetic, as though the full motion lurks just outside the frame. Nashat, who has been exhibited widely across international institutions, works with a coolly seductive visual language that draws on advertising aesthetics, sculptural tradition, and contemporary theory in equal measure. Hustle in Hand exemplifies the artist's ability to compress complex conceptual stakes into images that operate first on a purely sensory register before revealing their critical intelligence. The detail format underscores this quality, asking the viewer to attend to surface, gesture, and proximity rather than narrative totality. Currently on view at the Hammer Museum, this signed work represents an accessible entry point into one of the more rigorously conceptual practices of Nashat's generation. Collectors acquiring work from this body of production are engaging with an artist whose institutional trajectory continues to build significant momentum, and whose investigations of bodily politics and visual culture remain urgently relevant to contemporary critical discourse.

Medium
Digital video, color, sound
Signed
Yes
Location
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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Shahryar Nashat, Still from Hustle in Hand (detail), 2014

A still extracted from Shahryar Nashat's 2014 digital video work Hustle in Hand presents a fragment of the artist's sustained inquiry into the body as object, commodity, and spectacle. Nashat's practice gravitates toward the charged intersection of desire and clinical detachment, and this detail sustains that tension with precision, isolating a moment from a work that interrogates how bodies are staged, consumed, and circulated within systems of image production. The color and sound dimensions of the original video carry over into the still's residual energy, making the work feel simultaneously frozen and kinetic, as though the full motion lurks just outside the frame. Nashat, who has been exhibited widely across international institutions, works with a coolly seductive visual language that draws on advertising aesthetics, sculptural tradition, and contemporary theory in equal measure. Hustle in Hand exemplifies the artist's ability to compress complex conceptual stakes into images that operate first on a purely sensory register before revealing their critical intelligence. The detail format underscores this quality, asking the viewer to attend to surface, gesture, and proximity rather than narrative totality. Currently on view at the Hammer Museum, this signed work represents an accessible entry point into one of the more rigorously conceptual practices of Nashat's generation. Collectors acquiring work from this body of production are engaging with an artist whose institutional trajectory continues to build significant momentum, and whose investigations of bodily politics and visual culture remain urgently relevant to contemporary critical discourse.

Medium
Digital video, color, sound
Year
2014
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States

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