Jason Dodge

Darkness Falls on 6a Manik Bungalow Om Siddharal society Hrishiwan Borivali east Mumbai 400066

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Caption – Jason Dodge, Darkness Falls on 6a Manik Bungalow Om Siddharal society Hrishiwan Borivali east Mumbai 400066. Art Jameel Collection. Photo by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano.

Artwork Details

Artist

Jason Dodge

Title

Darkness Falls on 6a Manik Bungalow Om Siddharal society Hrishiwan Borivali east Mumbai 400066

Date

2015

Medium

Mixed media

Dimensions

Variable

Credit Line

Art Jameel Collection

Work Description

Jason Dodge’s work draws together the practical and the tangible, with the peripheral and the imaginary. His investigations explore our powers of perception and capacity to engage other senses beyond the merely visual. He cultivates an understanding that extends beyond categories such as sculpture, art, work and life, and suggests that thought itself has the potential to circumnavigate, if not transcend, the traps set by 21st century consumer society. 

Comprised of everyday materials that produce light, including lightbulbs and matches from a house in India, in the composition Darkness falls on 6a manik bungalow Om siddharaj society Hrishiwan Borivali east Mumbai 400066, the objects are strategically placed to imply and reference the abandoned house, however, the only reference to the house is in the title of the work. Dodge often employs the services of others, delegating production and emphasising various forms of labour; activities that together constitute the material of the everyday. He employed the owner to remove everything that produces light from his house in India. In combination with the title, the light bulbs, neon tubes, candles and matches which at first seem like an arbitrary collection of illuminants, evoke the image of an abandoned house. 

Dodge goes beyond the silent dimension of the object to reveal its narrative potential – a remote house at the edge of a forest, the darkness that consumes it, the atmosphere it exudes. 

Artist Biography

Jason Dodge (b. 1969, Newton, Pennsylvania, US) lives and works on Møn, Denmark 

Jason Dodge’s sculpture practice adjusts our material world to build moments of narrative, connection and potential through the lens of natural phenomena. Dodge brings attention back to the alchemical process of things, bringing a mystic contemplation to the otherwise banal and overlooked. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1992), and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven (1996) and has been making exhibitions in galleries, museums, biennials, art centres and artist-run spaces since the late 1990s. In 2012 Dodge founded and continues to edit the poetry imprint Fivehundred places. Dodge’s work is held in many public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MUDAM, Luxemburg; Castello de Rivoli, Turin; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and IAC Vuillerbanne.

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