THE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARADOX

When the Blind Colonial Circus befalls the town and mingles with hybrids, cyborgs and masked creatures, be prepared for a bizarre scene that gazes straightback at you.

Justus Jager paints documentary fiction communicating a reality that is manipulated, confused and modified by our imagination. At the interface between nature and culture in the twilight zone of perpetual spectacle, blurring lines of time and space and a constant blending of public and private, Jager’s settings question established and accepted markers of different dimensions in our everyday world.

The exhibition Private Sensation combines two groups of work. First, Blind Colonial Circus, is a relict of overcome freak shows and exotic excitement spectacularly lit and elevated to a stage of scenic enacted grotesque. The second work group titled by Jagers neologism Bioporn extends the first towards presence and gives reference to the voyeur and at the same time exhibitionist behaviour of contemporary media society.

Jagers work is characterised by processes. His paintings layer shades of colour until perfect chromaticity mirrors light and twilight. Meanwhile, synchronicity of settings and perspective give cross references between each artwork, while paintings conquer the showroom beyond the lines of the canvas.

The conception of our reality is up for negotiation, being victim and perpetrator at the same time, forcing us to think about a realignment of what can be considered privacy.