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- Jessica Adcock
Jessica
Adcock
Nocturnal Passage
The work of Jessica Adcock explores the borders between natural and man-made, real and imaginary. Representation borders on abstraction as the artist uses elements of photography and film stills of water, street photography and interior spaces to provide the suggestion of a place in her paintings. The process of applying and erasing layers of paint, exposing what lies beneath the murky, monochromatic surface of the painting allows an ambiguous narrative to arise. This action involves coalescing various aspects of perception into a liminal place of existence. The viewer is invited to wander the labyrinth of urban life and the beliefs that have been embedded into it, and encouraged to use a sense of curiosity and wonder in transcending this eternally transient surface to its nocturnal underpinnings that are a reflection of the familiar but also an intensely quiet and abstruse version of what the day’s light quells. Gestural and faded brushstrokes emphasise the transience of these places and life itself as rigid structures and borders begin to stretch and distort and new perspectives are gained.