Jackson Hole
Exhibition Jackson Hole, 2008
Interfaces, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain, Quimper
Lost Days, 2008 2 framed photos, print size, 80 x 60 cm and 40 x 30 cm
Jackson Hole comprises an ensemble of works that propose a scenario of the “Day After” type in which the prince of pop’s park gone bankrupt, NEVERLAND, becomes the object of a takeover that seeks to convert it into a theme park-cum-labor camp where all activity focuses on the reconstruction of Michael’s nose.
At one end of the exhibition space is a large cage. the floor of which is covered with a thick layer of mud. A crude snowman-like figure seems to sprout from the mud ground of the cage. The carrots strewn around the figure suggest both an object of worship and an esthetic impasse. Nearby, in the same cage, rises a tree made from dead branches held together by plaster bands. Grafted to each branch’s extremity is a head wrapped in bandages. The whole forms something resembling a family tree that can double as a climbing toy. A trap door at the back of the cage offers a clue as to the size of its occupant, though the latter’s timidity is such that few will actually see it, or him.
A tent-like structure made of wood and army blankets in the form of a peep-show or panopticon stands closeby opposite the cage . Holes in the blankets allow for a peek inside: clumsily modeled busts of the Prince in greenish-brown hues rise from tiny tables. The busts turn their backs on the viewers to form a closed circle, as if to contemplate their respective lacks as they await the return of the tent’s user(s).
A grid array of 64 black and white framed photographs (9 x 12 inch ) presents as many plasticine busts of the prince, none of which is ever really quite right, some of which are really off the mark. Warholian repetition is taken to its paroxsystic conclusion through a grass-roots treatment that allows identity to manifest itself paradoxically through fragmentation : a ghost image of sorts is formed as the viewer mentally assembles distinct key elements. FF
Cage, 2008
Mud, carrots, timber, bandages, wigs, lumber, stainless steel mesh
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Children’s Pavilion, _2008
Military blankets, plaster, acrylic, latex rubber, wigs, clay, children’s tables and, chairs, lumber
Interfaces, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain, Quimper. Photo : DR
When I’m 64, 2008
64 black and whit photographs, 30 x 21 cm each
260 x 185 cm all
Index : Michael Jackson Pollock, 2008
4 framed photographs : 2 photos 21 x 15 cm, 2 photos 18 x 13 cm
Photographic documentation of the exhibition : Dieter Kik.