This October at Sadie Coles HQ Jordan Wolfson presents a new large-scale sculptural animation that signals the artist’s ability to blend the childlike with the obscene.
With a sense of playfulness and horror, Wolfson’s singular work induces an active encounter of the uncanny; a mirror is situated within an ornamented bear’s enigmatic expression and surrounded by animated text to create a recurring visual paradox.
Employing animation, digital imaging and animatronic sculpture, Wolfson’s recent work has centred on ideas of literal and virtual reality, and the distinction between the real and the imagined – especially the projection of inner impulses (desire, optimism, violence or guilt) into constructed selves or scenarios. The subject-matter addressed within his practice is often confronted with a strong sense of urgency – demanding the viewer enter into the unfiltered dialogue and examination of the state of the world. In this way, Wolfson’s work also functions as a social critique, interrogating the discomforts and deeply held flaws within the societal structures and social practices embedded within Western culture.
