Jack Hogan: STREAM

Stream is a new solo exhibition of drawings, photographs and a video by Jack Hogan (Ireland, 1986).

The video work, Stream, cuts a slice of the free flow of mundane, magical life. A cinematic choreography of carrying on emerges, equal parts melancholy and ecstasy. Carrying on -- the complicated work of living and reproducing oneself -- is laborious, involving a world of sub-atomic decisions. Making ends meet doesn't leave time for much else.

Jack recorded hundreds of hours of their commutes, in an attempt to use cracks between errands for their own ends. People's everyday organisation is captured alongside Jack's; shared rhythms for split seconds. Through obsessive repetition, Jack renders visible the patterns of collectivity that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

The photographs and drawings are a sequence of black, white and grey details, gestures, formal interactions, body parts, patterns, masks and facades.

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Download writer and poet Tim MacGabhann's response to Jack Hogan's STREAM : All Incomplete.