Jack Laver - Cut From The Shadows

Exploring the transformative nature of subliminal imagery, experimenting with pigments, material and insubstantial quality of light, Jack Laver presents a new body of works where sensitivities of chiaroscuros capitulate with materiality, and the will to create. Radiating deep-time and transformation, Laver works oer a site of congealing agency — where a single undulation in a line of ink and pigments relies on all others in the arrangement to nd its position. Networks of material passage and bleeding thresholds cling together on each surface. The abstract assemblages of the work dispute impoverished geometries that shape our engagement with the world, and draw us towards notions of entanglement, where shadows cut out the shape of verity. Jack Laver (b.1998) is a London based multimedia artist and musician. His experiments with ink, adhesive and resin, investigate dependency and dissonance through material passage. These vast surfaces, at times, share a resemblance to action painting, or aerial landscape photography, yet retain their sculptural, uid presence. What we are oered comes from conditions that are far less concerned with human centred perspectives, and retreat from means of categorisation. The works stand in recognition of materials, and depend on their performance, as oscillating forms resonate with veins, roots, weather systems, or avenues of fractured river systems that cut through the landscape. Even stranger bodies of material discourse have symmetry with their composition. A bridge to that which withdraws from access, hidden by subterranean depths, or the limited perception we gain from our momentary blip of existence. Laver oers nonlinear structures of contemplation that speak to the physical realities of nature.