Past - John I'm Only Dancing curated by Fellowes and Pheasant

John I'm Only Dancing curated by Fellowes and Pheasant

John, I’m Only Dancing brings together artists Yason Banal (Philippines), Juan Pablo Echeverri (Columbia) and Rose Eken (Denmark).
John Jones Project Space is a dedicated new exhibition space developed on a philanthropic basis for emerging artists and supporting young talent.
Music is measured in terms of popularity, openness and accessibility, but its different subcultures are conversely identified as difficult, closed, and complex. Art and music crosses the boundaries of high and low culture, producingperformances, spectacles, commodities, and narratives. As source material for visual artists, music, and the wealthof iconography and social structures supporting music cultures, provides access to resonant public and private experiences, for reference, critique and commentary.
Each of the artists has been selected for the quality of their independently developed languages. Viewed collectively, the work explores the intersection between narrative and the construction of fictional illusions. Here music, adaptedthrough drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, film and performance, transforms everyday and historic worldsinto the realm of the metafictive, for the laying bare of illusions.
Rose Eken
Using delicately sculpted models and video, Eken appropriates and simulates iconic pop cultural products, fashioning a unique style of representation that enables the viewer to project personal experience onto the sharedimages of music reportage and videos. The duplicity of image and form inherent in recreating historical artefacts withmodern materials presents engaging spaces in the fabric of memory.
Juan Pablo Echeverri
Juan Pablo Echeverri is a photographer and film maker, concentrating on self portraits. His work explores the possibilities of altered image, identity and gender in private fantasies, and the challenge of their representation inpublic. His researched and humoured productions parody and reproduce the celebration of narcissism within acarefully weighted photographic aesthetic.
Yason Banal
Yason Banal’s varied practice traverses the mediums of film, photography, performance and installation, but is consistent in building poetic platforms on which popular culture and the real world collide to glorious affect. Inrefusing to be formally pinned down, his narratives reflect, document and construct the spectral circulation of illusion,myth, and reality in the popular imagination.

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