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Jesper Just | Perrotin New York
by Larry Armstrong-Kizzee
Jesper Just: Corporealités (installation image), 2020. Photo Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
Debuting a new addition to his ongoing Interpassivities series, Danish artist Jesper Just will be presenting Corporealités at Perrotin in New York this week: a large-scale work exploring the autonomy of ballet through the immersive elements of sculpture and video. At the heart of a piece is Just’s film, displayed across a series of LED-panels strewn about the space, where close up shots of dancers from the American Ballet Theatre show their bodies affixed to electrotherapy patches. As the muscles displayed on the panels contract, notes of Fauré’s Op. 50 seem to play in tandem, providing an ominously invisible link between the film and physical space. As a result of this disorienting link between the digital and physical spaces, Just’s work seems to use ballet as a platform to consider the body in both its idealized and fractured forms of existence.
Corporealités will be on view from January 14 through February 15, 2020 at the Perrotin gallery, 130 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception Wednesday, January 22, 6pm - 8pm