De Nature

De Nature

Oct 30–Dec 8, 2002

De Nature was an exhibition featuring the work of David Jurist, continuing his investigation of the conceptual and literal interpretation of landscape. In this installation Jurist equated the neutral “white cube” gallery space with the sophisticated visual language of commercially produced camouflage fabric. It was the “relational” transformation-of-object into artwork or person into landscape that is of interest in this work. Architectural-scale camouflage patterning was painted on the walls of the gallery and objects in the exhibition were made from sportsman’s camouflage. Jurist was keenly aware of the boundary of the art historical and the art architectural forces at play in his presentation of landscape bounded by institutional walls. Within the installation, “art” objects hung in between spotlights. The area of the spotlighting was painted white and left empty to play up the struggle between those two artificial systems.