Jamie Kane

Lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands

Artist statement

I like to think about my works as functioning like landfill sites, where layers of material history sit together simultaneously, decompose at varying rates, and create slippages across time; It is a historical understanding that is a continual work in progress. I am interested in the personal, social and material stories of the things around us and how these build a set of affinities through time, that resonate and affect the present. My biography is often a point of departure, particularly my upbringing within a village in the north of Scotland where my family has lived for over a hundred years. It is a place where the deep past collides with the present, it is a landscape that has been written over many times leaving residue along the way. This place and its surroundings enter into my work both directly and obliquely. This results in works made across sculpture, video, audio and text, that strategically move between the minor, micro or ephemeral, to speak out to the major, macro and the enduring. Whether this is the colour schemes of accommodation for seasonal farm labourers, the shifts in local dialect with that of economy, or prophecies made in the past about future events; materials and the non-linear sets of relations they accumulate with time are drawn upon and intervene into the present.

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