ZARINA NARES
Book, 8 x 10 inches, Paperback, Perfect Binding, 132 pages, Edition of 5.
"Hey. Honestly, I’m just…I don’t know" begins with a text on how reality TV can serve a dual role: distracting us from our own anger while simultaneously reflecting it back at us. The book is structured in three acts, each a different scene from Season 7 of Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’: “Hey.” - a fight at a birthday party, followed by “Honestly, I’m just…” and “I don’t know.” - two scenes where women involved discuss their feelings.
The fast pace of reality TV allows us to laugh at and judge women's expressions of anger, creating a sense of detachment or superiority. By slowing each scene down and requiring readers to engage with the dialogue frame by frame, the book explores the normalization of the impulse to intentionally target each other's insecurities in moments of anger, as well as the underlying emotions, often rooted in childhood, that drive this learned behavior.
*Note this item is in production and will ship in 3 weeks
Book, 8 x 10 inches, Paperback, Perfect Binding, 132 pages, Edition of 5.
"Hey. Honestly, I’m just…I don’t know" begins with a text on how reality TV can serve a dual role: distracting us from our own anger while simultaneously reflecting it back at us. The book is structured in three acts, each a different scene from Season 7 of Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’: “Hey.” - a fight at a birthday party, followed by “Honestly, I’m just…” and “I don’t know.” - two scenes where women involved discuss their feelings.
The fast pace of reality TV allows us to laugh at and judge women's expressions of anger, creating a sense of detachment or superiority. By slowing each scene down and requiring readers to engage with the dialogue frame by frame, the book explores the normalization of the impulse to intentionally target each other's insecurities in moments of anger, as well as the underlying emotions, often rooted in childhood, that drive this learned behavior.
*Note this item is in production and will ship in 3 weeks
Book, 8 x 10 inches, Paperback, Perfect Binding, 132 pages, Edition of 5.
"Hey. Honestly, I’m just…I don’t know" begins with a text on how reality TV can serve a dual role: distracting us from our own anger while simultaneously reflecting it back at us. The book is structured in three acts, each a different scene from Season 7 of Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’: “Hey.” - a fight at a birthday party, followed by “Honestly, I’m just…” and “I don’t know.” - two scenes where women involved discuss their feelings.
The fast pace of reality TV allows us to laugh at and judge women's expressions of anger, creating a sense of detachment or superiority. By slowing each scene down and requiring readers to engage with the dialogue frame by frame, the book explores the normalization of the impulse to intentionally target each other's insecurities in moments of anger, as well as the underlying emotions, often rooted in childhood, that drive this learned behavior.
*Note this item is in production and will ship in 3 weeks
Zarina Nares (b. 1995) is a New York City-born artist of Indian and British descent. She pursued her higher education at Goldsmiths University of London, where she studied electronic music, computing, and technology. Her multi-media practice explores feminine identity in virtual spaces through the themes of self-worth, desire, authenticity, and performance of self. She examines how these aspects are digitally shaped and how they relate to broader societal structures both past and present. Zarina has exhibited at TIMESHARE, Los Angeles, HEART Gallery, New York, Eugster Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, and screened at Sara’s Gallery, New York, Heavy Manner’s Library, Los Angeles, and Toxi, Zurich, Switzerland. Her work has appeared in AUTRE Magazine, Do Not Research, and DSCENE, and her books have sold at Printed Matter, Pioneer Works, and Metalabel.