Sylvia Kouvali is pleased to present new work by American artist Jason Dodge (b. 1969, lives in Møn, Denmark). This marks the artist’s first exhibition in London since 2008 and his first with the gallery. Jason Dodge’s sculptures are not defined by formal transformation, but rather by the repositioning of recognisable materials through acts of selection, displacement, and framing. A central concern in his practice is how things appear in states of suspension: materially modest yet conceptually charged, where meaning is neither fixed nor fully accessible. Rather than functioning as autonomous forms, the works operate as traces. Attentive to the...
Sylvia Kouvali is pleased to present new work by American artist Jason Dodge (b. 1969, lives in Møn, Denmark). This marks the artist’s first exhibition in London since 2008 and his first with the gallery.
Jason Dodge’s sculptures are not defined by formal transformation, but rather by the repositioning of recognisable materials through acts of selection, displacement, and framing. A central concern in his practice is how things appear in states of suspension: materially modest yet conceptually charged, where meaning is neither fixed nor fully accessible. Rather than functioning as autonomous forms, the works operate as traces.
Attentive to the physical specificity of materials, Dodge works with things from the world that undergo only subtle shifts. These materials are placed in new relationships, developing in relation to their surroundings, architecture, and atmosphere. These materials are not transformed beyond recognition; instead, they are placed in new relationships, where their presence can be felt differently, whilst simultaneously carrying their own histories and associations, moving across and through one another.
