N I C H O L A S & S H E I L A P Y E

U N S P O I L E D
May 18 - June 22, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6:30 - 8 pm

In a few years, when I've forgotten you, and when other stories like yours...rise to the surface, I'll remember you the way I would remember the forgetting of love itself. I'll think of this story as I would of the horror of forgetting.
-Hiroshima Mon Amour

Curator's Office is pleased to present Unspoiled, a new exhibition of photographic works by celebrated Canadian collaborative team Nicholas & Sheila Pye. This will be the fourth exhibition of work by the Pyes at Curator's Office. Unspoiled includes four large dramatic photographs. This will be the last exhibition in the space at 1515 14th Street in Washington, DC as the gallery relocates, so it is appropriate to conclude a wonderful nine-year run in Logan Circle with work that explores the psychological intensity of transition.

Art historian and Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Program Associate Jessica Beck writes, "The artists Nicolas & Sheila Pye have spent their careers exploring the trials and tribulations as well as tender moments of love. In both film and photography, they have explored broad themes of attachment, gender politics, the ego, and the unspoken wishes and desires that can plague relationships. In their new body of photographic work, the Pyes use nature to tell a different, more mature story of loss, the failings of memory, and the fragility of love. The stylized sets that they once employed in films have been traded in for the serene simplicity of nature. In dense forests and clear streams, themes of connection, loss, and memory are staged in sublimely blissful settings."

"While memory and loss are prominent themes in this new series, mutual respect emanates from these images. This series tells a tale of remembrance, esteem, homage and perhaps growth. In this forest of the past, there is perhaps the promise of a new and different future. These figures seem to be treading cautiously, but forward nonetheless."

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