David Jourdan

Life Cycles, By-Products and Other Short Forms

Sep 8–28, 2024

The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with /c/o Schleuse 

Schelleingasse 26, 1040 Vienna 

 

— I don’t want the world to end, David.
— It won’t.

Did you hear the Buddhist one about the
Turing test?
Monk: What makes us human?
Buddha: Identifying fire hydrants, selecting
all images with traffic lights...

I closed my phone and looked away. The
years have gone by with nothing to show for
them, and it’s time to unclutter, defrag,
and valorize the accumulated knowledge. It
didn’t go so well. Instead, I found myself
reducing the complexity of things to the
cycles from which they arise: the natural
migrations of ideas and representations.
    The weather forecast warned of excessive
heat again these days. I suddenly felt
strangely detached, automated, as apathetic
as an AI outcome.

 

 

 

 Installation view.

 

 

 

 Installation view.

 

 Installation view.

 

 

 Installation view.

 

 

Untitled, 2024
Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,
(UV varnish) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Untitled, 2024
Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,
(UV varnish)

 

Untitled, 2024

 Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,

 (UV varnish)

 

 

 

 

Untitled, 2024

 Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,

 (UV varnish)

 

Untitled, 2024
Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,
(UV varnish)

 

 

 

Untitled, 2024

 Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,

 (UV varnish)

 

 

 

 

Untitled, 2024
Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,
(UV varnish)

 

Untitled, 2024
Packaging, iron dust primer, rubberstrontium ferrite composite sheet,
(UV varnish)

 

 Untitled (Thursday, 1/31), 2015
Screenprint on paper coated on particle
board
99 × 53.3 × 2.2 cm

 

 

 

All photos: repro-photo.net