For his exhibition at Momenta Art, James Fotopoulos will present two videos: Spine Face and Pig. Both pieces were made in 2005. Spine Face combines props, masked/naked figures, animation, processed images, a male/female figure, and voiceover of biblical/invented text. The effect is one of a profound inner voice grappling with the mundanity of desire and an endless epiphany of spiritual connection. The present becomes the eternal recurring. In Pig, a pig eats a dead soldier in Kosovo and then is shot itself. Abject yet heartbreaking, both works rise out from a reiteration of images and texts that is both familiar in a wider cultural sense yet at the same time deeply idiosyncratic.

The work of James Fotopoulos has shown internationally at many festivals and sites including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Sundance Channel, Walker Art Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. In 2002 he had a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives and was exhibited in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2005 he received the Creative Capital Grant for his video on the life of Richard Nixon, published a book of drawings, The Lime Book, and completed an installation for the 2005 Contour Biennial for Video Art.  His most recent video, The Hard Boiled Egg, produced from an unpublished screenplay by Eugene Ionesco, will premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in May.