Moving Pictures
Exhibition |13 May - 4 July | Ashley Saville | 193 Fleet Street, EC4A 2AH, London
Ashley Saville is delighted to announce Moving Pictures, an exhibition of works by Jason Shulman. The exhibition’s title is a wide bracket that alludes to time and motion, as well as to an implied dramatic intensity. It is one of three exhibitions featuring Shulman’s work this summer, alongside those at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil and the Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation in Texas.
Spanning a decade of work, Moving Pictures showcases Shulman’s distinctive command of photographic techniques. The artist’s acclaimed series, Photographs of Films, in which the entire duration of a feature film is captured in a single exposure, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Moving Pictures will include a new and exclusive edition from this eminent body of work: Barbarella (1968).
The exhibition features two lenticular images from Shulman’s ongoing Photographs of History series: the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile. Animated and emotive, these tightly-cropped images exist in-between news footage and conventional documentary photographs.
Shulman’s most recent works (2025–26) mark a return to his long-exposure technique, this time applied to a more focused range of footage. The exhibition features a selection of images depicting kisses in cinema: the kiss between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura in an episode of Star Trek (1968), one of the earliest interracial kisses shown on American television; Pepé Le Pew’s unwanted kisses to Penelope Pussycat in For Scent-imental Reasons (1949); and Marcello Mastroianni kissing Anita Ekberg’s hand in La Dolce Vita (1960), their only kiss in the film.
Moving Pictures will also present a series of long-exposure photographs of male ejaculations from online sources. As with the kisses, the arc of the orgasm is captured and compressed into a single image.
Jason Shulman (b. 1963) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. His photographic works have been displayed at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (2026), Museo Fine Art Museum (2021), White Noise Gallery (2017), Somerset House (2017) and Cob Gallery (2016). His sculptural and mixed-media works have been displayed at the Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation (2026), Cob Gallery (2016), Flowers Gallery (2014), the Third Moscow Biennial (2012), Museum of Old and New Art (2009), White Cube (2008), the Kinetica Museum (2006) and Ariel Meyoritz Gallery (2005).
His work is held in several public collections including the David Roberts Art Foundation (UK), the Howard Earle Rachofsky Foundation (USA) and the Tony Elham Salamé Collection (Lebanon).