MAMOTH is thrilled to announce its international artist residency programme 2023 with a focus on Jacob Mason-Macklin's practice. Living and working in London for the duration of his residency, Jacob Mason-Macklin will develop a new body of work, which will be presented at MAMOTH in late November, 2023
Drawing by Jacob Mason-Macklin, 2023
"This current body of work is a continuation of ideas found in the work I made during my time in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In particular paintings, forms describing figures and autobody parts converged, jostling for position, staging a site of collision between a sentient and a mechanized subject. This convergence sought to dislocate the reality of the forms described in the painting and reconfigure the relationship between the figure and the mechanical object to a space that felt abstracted and less concrete.
I've spent the last 60 of 84 days operating in London. In seeking to further articulate this fascination between a sentient and a mechanized subject, reflections on my origins in the rustbelt, my time living and working in New York City, and my adjustment to a new cultural and geographic climate have merged with a sense of alienation as the distance away from home grows: 5566 km traveled, 704,940 steps traversed.
This propulsion into the unfamiliar has ignited an ember of grief, subsequently programming my initial concept for this project with a psychological underpinning that fuses observational depictions of locomotives, auto body parts, and mechanical hardware with gestural renderings that utilize a metallic palette and clustered brushstrokes in order to record a sentient state, recalling the insides of a machine."
-Jacob Mason-Macklin, London, October 2023
