Still Life
“I see the moving image as a painterly medium, inevitably impressionistic, a play of flickering light and shadows.”
—NICOLA SMITH
icola Smith makes paintings about moments. Her practice has, up to this point, revolved around film stills, derived from movies by directors like Chantal Akerman, Buster Keaton and Benoît Pilon, among others. Smith often produces multiple paintings of scenes that were shot only a few seconds apart from each other, suggesting an interest not in appropriation or repetition, but in capturing how no two moments, however
