jenny keane!
‘The body is a most peculiar
‘thing’, for it
is never quite reducible to being merely a thing; nor does it ever
quite manage to rise above the status of thing. Thus it is both a thing
and a nonthing, an object, but an object which somehow
contains or
coexists with an interiority, an object able to take itself and others
as subjects, a unique kind of object not reducible to other
objects.’
Elisabeth Grosz
Fear and Desire are the two ends of the same thing. If you are afraid
of being hurt, then you desire not to be hurt. Fear of death
is a
desire for life. Jenny Keane’s practice involves
the
uncontrollable paradigms of fear and desire.
The work tries to encapsulate a play between distance and intimacy,
subject and object, self and Other. Keane generally tries to evade or
subvert narrative through repetition or distraction. Duplication has
become re-enactment and fear of the new. Compulsive repetition becomes
a way of gaining power over the disjointed and vacillating world, and
our likenesses are as fragmented as our lives. Self–portrait
is
an example of both a Narcissistic culture and of duplication; this
‘likeness’ seems to be a hopeless attempt to
recreate the
self. The connections we make between body and mind, the idea of the
way we are perceived, the way we believe we appear to others, and of
the way we actually are, is examined in the work.
statement
biography
