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For his first institutional exhibition in the United States, Jasper Marsalis (b. 1995) transforms the lower-level galleries of the Aspen Art Museum into a responsive audio-visual environment in which the viewer is both a subject and a participant. Creating an immersive assemblage, Marsalis combines the infrastructure of live events, including a stage affixed with contact microphones, spotlights, a camera, and a screen, with new works including paintings, sculptures and the growing rhizome of a potato plant. The exhibition unfolds as a site for performance where visitors play a crucial role in generating new images and sounds, and extend their limits of perception.
Marsalis, who lives between Los Angeles and London, instigates links between acts of artmaking and communal acts of spectacle, questioning the role and power of an audience. In the galleries, Marsalis gives form to both vigilant and despondent acts of observation, depicting spotlights, stages, cinemas, and abstracted body…
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For his first institutional exhibition in the United States, Jasper Marsalis (b. 1995) transforms the lower-level galleries of the Aspen Art Museum into a responsive audio-visual environment in which the viewer is both a subject and a participant. Creating an immersive assemblage, Marsalis combines the infrastructure of live events, including a stage affixed with contact microphones, spotlights, a camera, and a screen, with new works including paintings, sculptures and the growing rhizome of a potato plant. The exhibition unfolds as a site for performance where visitors play a crucial role in generating new images and sounds, and extend their limits of perception.
Marsalis, who lives between Los Angeles and London, instigates links between acts of artmaking and communal acts of spectacle, questioning the role and power of an audience. In the galleries, Marsalis gives form to both vigilant and despondent acts of observation, depicting spotlights, stages, cinemas, and abstracted body…
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