Jason Dodge

Behind this machine anyone with a mind who cares can enter.

September 16 – November 6, 2016

 

Following his participation in the group exhibitions (1966-79 in 2013 and Dimensions variables in 2012), Jason Dodge will present his most significant monographic exhibition in France to date.

 

“There is an abundance of traces, everywhere, you can read them. All you need to begin is a question, you will notice that this halts time. What will happen to you? What do you not know about yourself? How will you make sense of what has happened to you?

 

This sudden stop drops you into space. Details and similarities — sensuous and non-sensuous — spaces you have to navigate with your body and with everything that your whole body already knows: you notice the difference between top and bottom, left and right, centre and periphery.

 

Now, use the same basic embodied scheme you would use to remember how to dance.

 

Everything matters, everything is matter and therefore can be read. There are words, materials and forms. There are clouds, footsteps, fried eggs, paintings, shadows, shells, holes and walls.

 

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Jason Dodge | Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne | September 2016