Jesper JUST

Continuous Monuments (Interpassivities)

solo show

September 1, 2017 - November 11, 2017

hong kong

50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG

artist info

press release

103 people attended the opening.
2 132 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 44 days.
Daily average 48 visitors per day including opening, 47 per day excluding opening.

Perrotin Hong Kong is pleased to present Jesper Just’s latest film Continuous Monuments (Interpassivities). The film shows musician ‪Kim Gordon, former bassist in the legendary band Sonic Youth, in a landscape delineated by a long fence on the US / Mexico border. Gordon, donning a tutu and cowboy boots, runs a stick along the border fence, creating a rhythm in a childlike gesture, but one executed with intention. The wall, a symbol of division and divisive politics suddenly becomes a musical instrument. In reassigning its meaning and transforming it into a productive object, capable of creation, the power structures between architecture, territory and function are rearranged. Rather than a border, the wall becomes a monument, stripped of its intended pragmatic function, linking the viewer through space and sound through a universal experience of sensation and impulse, not void of humor and defiance.‬ […]