ART CITIES: London-Jan Vorisek

Jan Vorisek often mobilizes the aesthetics of his work as a DJ and promoter in his performances and static ouptut. Vorisek’s main concern throughout is the delineation of space, and the anxiety and satisfaction it can arouse. In the title of the exhibition, Vorisek suggests a desire to bridge the sensations and motifs of temporalities and various imagined locations.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Arcadia Missa Archive

The work of Jan Vorisek brings together a repurposing of materials, systems and symbols  that serve to highlight the codes in which power, control and subversion operate, as well as the various channels through which (commodity) fetishism inserts itself. While Vorisek’s work spans sculpture, installation, performance and sound, the exhibition “Music for shipping containers” functions as a framework through which a new body of sculptures is unveiled, interconnected through their shared materials, motifs and a musical score. An extension of Vorisek’s studio practice, the works comprise found materials, made and altered objects and surfaces, to create assemblages on modular components. These reference architectural models, furniture, city planning as well as global systems of consumption — through which objects travel. Packing items become the objects themselves, painted and framed into Perspex. The act of looking down gives the viewer a sense of control, as do the nods to controlled subversion within the accumulated and contained items. Above, a drone sound permeates the space, implying surveillance and signalling the birdseye view implanted onto the floor of the gallery.

Photo: Jan Vorisek, Untitled (Vein), 2022, Wood, cardboard, paint, lacquer, 32 × 43.5 × 40.5 cm, © Jan Vorisek, Courtesy the artist and Arcadia Missa

Info: Arcadia Missa, 35 Duke Street, London, United Kingdom, Duration: 25/6-9/9/2022, Days & Hours: tue-Sat 12:00-18:00, http://arcadiamissa.com/