Jargot
solo exhibition
ART IN GENERAL, NYC.
24 January 2014 – 15 March 2014

• Dear Jargot, how to act in the middle of this sentence?

Jargot is a sculptural installation by Ola Vasiljeva, that unfolds like a stage where abandoned ideas briefly return to perform. Fragments of a private visual vocabulary circulate through the space, while references drift, mingle and gradually mutate.

The installation continues Vasiljeva’s exploration of the relation between thought, language and the emergence of objects. Sculptural forms appear as stand-ins for personal artifacts, characters or gestures-- creating a shifting field, where categories remain uncertain and meanings circulate through riddles, echoes and private jokes.

Recurring figures move fluidly between sculpture, prop and performance, turning the installation into a metaphor for syntax, where objects behave like words, entering and leaving provisional sentences.

Curated by Zane Onckule

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN: ART – Ola Vasiljeva, Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, February 2014.