My collage works are always in flux; a constant back and forth between erosion and sedimentation of both materials and meaning. As I add, rip, rearrange and destroy the materials, my works are constantly falling out of place, fragments of material and meaning are both added and lost in this process.

My ambition is to explore objects, places and landscapes that are both appearing and disappearing at the same time, much like a vision: nothing is entirely there — and nothing is lost. I, therefore, consider my works multi-temporal scenes, exploring landscapes or places in which myths, old objects, memories and possible futures are all haunting the present simultaneously.

"A visual motif of twists and curls, like the way chain link is turned around itself to create junctures in a grid or metal is coiled into a cable, serves as a metaphor for the way the mind grasps for bits of information during moments of disruption. Jacek coaxes out a sense of imbalance, conscious of dualities between light and dark, focus and blurriness, order and chaos, or 'something that is there and something that only remains as a shadow of itself'."

Story by Kate Mothes @ Dovetail Magazine

In Kasper Jacek’s (b. 1989, DK) collage practice he uses materials to explore fleeting moments – moments where the places we enter, inhabit or move through open themselves up and reveal something to us, move us or remind us of something we thought long forgotten.

Kasper Jacek is a self-taught artist based in Odder/Aarhus, Denmark. His artistic work is a continuation of his academic and journalistic work on the subject of place, working with the history of places, the mythologies and memories bound to certain places – and exploring new ways to tell stories about the objects we surround ourselves with.

See my sculptural work.
See list of selected works.