| Kelly Jazvac |
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Jazvac's sculptural work investigates the relationship between surface and desire. It does so by using materials that question and complicate this relationship, and by choosing objects that simultaneously highlight and undermine it.  Her most recent works recreate luxury goods, and share certain aesthetic qualities. From a distance they look slick, glossy and pristine, yet up close they are clearly handmade, imperfect and strange. The strangeness of the objects brings them into question. They play with ideas of consumer desire, surface, quality, marketing, labour and use value. Like any product, they have the ability to both delight and disappoint. Jazvac has expressed an interest in the advertising technique of attaching large, printed tarpaulins to the front of buildings under construction in order to hide scaffolding and to illustrate a plan for the finished facade. In London she will continue her investigations into advertising veneer with a view to making a large-scale work based on her research. Kelly's residency is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and is part of an ongoing programme of two six-month residencies per year at SPACE. |
Kelly Jazvac will be in residence at SPACE from September 2008 - Feb 2009.
