Jacqueline Ito

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Central to my work is the earthly significance of the environment on both an ecological and interpersonal level. In the interwoven spaces that characterise my practice, all manner of beings are irrevocably entangled with our environment. We are perennially fracturing, splicing and mosaicing together. Drawing on the accumulated ideas of post-human thinkers like Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing, who encourage the need to envision new, speculative visions for interspecies worldings, my works depict a continuous evolution of cross-contamination between subjects and creative approaches. In drawing on fantastical imagery and mythology, I hope to prompt the viewer to consider how mythology and magic might be present in our everyday surroundings. By integrating foraged organic materials such as branches and collected personal remains, I aim to breathe new life into commonly discarded waste products by highlighting their inherent material animacy. Perhaps one can find the more-than-human creatures that might populate our surroundings, if one only knows where to look for them. Jacqueline (b.2003, Hong Kong) is a practising fine artist based in London. She works across drawing, painting, sculpture, fibre arts, and performance to craft a practice that centres states of metamorphosis, embedded through the lens of materiality. Her work bridges sites and species, traversing the visceral and vulnerable, where the mundane meets mythology and folklore nestles within the rhythms of routine....

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