simultaneity over sameness

Distributed Artworks circulate through shared-ownership, they are interdependent and accessible to many. This new venture experiments with the collective economies of cultural objects and affirms Jackson’s dedication to the poetics of making, circulating and living with painting.

RESEARCH AS MULTIPLE STATEMENT

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E. Jackson (b.1979 UK, lives and works in France) is an artist working with the internal space of painting. Their practice is concerned with a contemporary experience of ancient planetary events and a re-activation of the emotional bonds to the Earth systems that sustain us. These interests address the relation between human perception, natural processes, abstract imagery, and the connections these make with our central nervous system. Emerging from investigations into the physical process of painting, and the behaviour of light and fluid temporal states, Jackson creates artworks that are seen by the eyes and felt in the body. Inspired by experiences of natural phenomena, their work explores planetary time through slow processes of attunement, devotional and durational objects, an intimate relation to distant things, and the magnitudes of human sensing.

Jackson’s conceptual practice is an enquiry into human vision and the mysteries of energy and matter. Their work considers the cumulative potential of painting to expand and move an image. Jackson is dealing with questions of relation, scale and visibility – not within the picture plane of a discrete work, but in the planetary dimensions of its distribution.

Jackson conceptualises painting and drawing as an energetic mass of light mobilised. Influenced by theories of radiant energy within the field of physics, each painted surface is an experiment with photons, materials and human sensing. They describe their multiplex paintings as scattered situations. The works construct a decentralised viewing experience, where the painting always remains mostly elsewhere. This refusal to make painting as a singularity or totality is therefore an act of resistance.