THEY'LL FIND US IN THE DIRT
– AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
In THEY'LL FIND US IN THE DIRT I present works that explore both the past and an imagined future in which our civilisation is buried in the ground – like civilisations before us. In this world huge mythological beasts rise in the sky, ghostly cats hide in the shadows, the wind blows wildly over the barren landscapes and artifacts are turned out of the ground, revealing their stories.
► They'll Find Us in the Dirt @ SLETH / 7th – 13th of AUGUST, 2020
“An overcast morning in July. A taste of ashes flies through the air; – an odor of sweating wood on the hearth, – dew-ret flowers – devastation along the promenades – the mist of the canals over the fields – why not incense and toys already?”
ARTHUR RIMBAUD: ILLUMINATIONS
"My paintings almost never reveal any human drama, but are told from the perspective of the place: the ground, the field, the hills or the cave. The human drama only reveal itself as leftovers, shadows and scars left behind from earlier civilizations."
“Buried in the sand left of the entrance lies the fisher’s harpune. It’s wooden handle has crumbled away, the bronze begins to weather on the surface. The people disappear. Even faster than their walls they crash to the ground and disappear. Only the shadow remains, for two centuries it circles around the dune like a cat. An afternoon in the downturn of Europe a group of workers arrive and let it back in. We dig the long way back, remove the sand and rubble to find some of the old houses.”
Excerpt from “Syv Seglsten” by Thorkild Hansen
"I'm always moving in and out of different scales, temporalities and styles of painting; balancing between the abstract, archaeological exploration of textures and surfaces that I cut into, paint over and dig out again, revealing earlier layers of paint ━ and mythological, figurative objects such as vases, cave paintings, shadow animals, figurines, statues, monuments and ghostly figures."
Kasper Mikael Jacek (b. 1989) is a self-taught artist based in Aarhus, Denmark. His artistic works are a continuation of his academic and journalistic work on the subject of place, working with the historicity of places, ‘the cultural-natural processes that are always re-constructing places’ and exploring new ways to tell stories about so-called ‘dead’ objects.
LET'S HIDE HERE FOR AWHILE, 2020
Exhibition @ SLETH, Sonnesgade 11, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
CONTACT ME FOR INFO & PRICES:
MAIL: info@kasperjacek.com
INSTAGRAM: @kasperjacek
Phone: 0045 61167776
PHOTOS: Emilie Warming
THEY'LL FIND US IN THE DIRT
– AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
In THEY'LL FIND US IN THE DIRT I present works that explore both the past and an imagined future in which our civilisation is buried in the ground – like civilisations before us. In this world huge mythological beasts rise in the sky, ghostly cats hide in the shadows, the wind blows wildly over the barren landscapes and artifacts are turned out of the ground, revealing their stories.
► They'll Find Us in the Dirt @ SLETH / 7th – 13th of AUGUST, 2020
“An overcast morning in July. A taste of ashes flies through the air; – an odor of sweating wood on the hearth, – dew-ret flowers – devastation along the promenades – the mist of the canals over the fields – why not incense and toys already?”
ARTHUR RIMBAUD: ILLUMINATIONS
"My paintings almost never reveal any human drama, but are told from the perspective of the place: the ground, the field, the hills or the cave. The human drama only reveal itself as leftovers, shadows and scars left behind from earlier civilizations."
“Buried in the sand left of the entrance lies the fisher’s harpune. It’s wooden handle has crumbled away, the bronze begins to weather on the surface. The people disappear. Even faster than their walls they crash to the ground and disappear. Only the shadow remains, for two centuries it circles around the dune like a cat. An afternoon in the downturn of Europe a group of workers arrive and let it back in. We dig the long way back, remove the sand and rubble to find some of the old houses.”
Excerpt from “Syv Seglsten” by Thorkild Hansen
"I'm always moving in and out of different scales, temporalities and styles of painting; balancing between the abstract, archaeological exploration of textures and surfaces that I cut into, paint over and dig out again, revealing earlier layers of paint ━ and mythological, figurative objects such as vases, cave paintings, shadow animals, figurines, statues, monuments and ghostly figures."
Kasper Mikael Jacek (b. 1989) is a self-taught artist based in Aarhus, Denmark. His artistic works are a continuation of his academic and journalistic work on the subject of place, working with the historicity of places, ‘the cultural-natural processes that are always re-constructing places’ and exploring new ways to tell stories about so-called ‘dead’ objects.
Exhibition @ SLETH, Sonnesgade 11, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
CONTACT ME FOR INFO & PRICES:
MAIL: info@kasperjacek.com
INSTAGRAM: @kasperjacek
Phone: 0045 61167776