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Jonathan Schipper: At Any Given Moment
We are proud to present a solo exhibition of Jonathan Schipper鈥檚 recent sculpture and work on paper. These works embody Schipper鈥檚 reflections on consumption and consequence or, more precisely, consumption without consideration of consequences, including: increased waste, increased consumption of food, water, and other resources, global warming and climate change, among others. This includes procreation, a global issue since most of us worldwide do it automatically. The exhibition title references a question of how many of us are trying to reproduce at any given moment? How many people on planet Earth are engaging in sex and, at least potentially, procreating?
鈥淲e come [into the world] without instructions. We are guided by our desires, needs, wants, feelings. We consume, grow, displace, and use. We build, we fornicate, we procreate, and we populate. We have discovered hidden instructions built in the fabric of our bodies. We know the letters but we do not understand the text. We are guided through desire built from this hidden language but to what end? Is there a goal or are we just a system destined to burn itself out?鈥� (Schipper)
This exhibition will consist of a central sculpture including unknown thousands of miniature human figures, 3D printed and clustered on a large incinerated tree trunk in groupings that appear cloud-like and, when viewed closely, can be seen as mass orgies or human struggle. How many figures are in the mass? This is unknown, just as the answer to the central question of this work is unknown. How many people can we know? What do a million people look like? What would the current world population estimate of 7.7 billion look like? Our minds can discern a single person and we can see groups up to perhaps one hundred. After that the group becomes a haze, a cloud, as our cognitive abilities are saturated. How do we learn to understand and be apart from, and a part of, this cloud of human needs desires and actions?
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We are proud to present a solo exhibition of Jonathan Schipper鈥檚 recent sculpture and work on paper. These works embody Schipper鈥檚 reflections on consumption and consequence or, more precisely, consumption without consideration of consequences, including: increased waste, increased consumption of food, water, and other resources, global warming and climate change, among others. This includes procreation, a global issue since most of us worldwide do it automatically. The exhibition title references a question of how many of us are trying to reproduce at any given moment? How many people on planet Earth are engaging in sex and, at least potentially, procreating?
鈥淲e come [into the world] without instructions. We are guided by our desires, needs, wants, feelings. We consume, grow, displace, and use. We build, we fornicate, we procreate, and we populate. We have discovered hidden instructions built in the fabric of our bodies. We know the letters but we do not understand the text. We are guided through desire built from this hidden language but to what end? Is there a goal or are we just a system destined to burn itself out?鈥� (Schipper)
This exhibition will consist of a central sculpture including unknown thousands of miniature human figures, 3D printed and clustered on a large incinerated tree trunk in groupings that appear cloud-like and, when viewed closely, can be seen as mass orgies or human struggle. How many figures are in the mass? This is unknown, just as the answer to the central question of this work is unknown. How many people can we know? What do a million people look like? What would the current world population estimate of 7.7 billion look like? Our minds can discern a single person and we can see groups up to perhaps one hundred. After that the group becomes a haze, a cloud, as our cognitive abilities are saturated. How do we learn to understand and be apart from, and a part of, this cloud of human needs desires and actions?
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