Cooper Jacoby

Cooper Jacoby’s diverse practice revolves around the notion of circulation, from postal process to acupuncture flow charts to honeycombs, and their respective predisposition to blockages and interruption. The artist, born in 1989 in the US, approaches his subject, looking for points of damage and rupture. His sculptures, mounted on walls or standing on their own, are made out of functional materials, such as silkscreens, printer inks and aluminium letter boxes, turned into dysfunctional, polished-looking intricate objects which, upon close examination, reveal faultiness and decay. Jacoby is interested in the ways materials deemed as “waste” are reevaluated, revalued and reused, examplified by his use of Fordite, a type of industrial waste which is made ornamental. In such a way, the subject and the materiality of his practice becomes indistinguishable. Intended to be neither beautiful nor ugly; neither useful nor useless, Jacoby’s works constitute puzzles of static movement at the intersection of the human and non-human, subtle in their complexity.