Name | Jaguar Lacroix

Country | Australia

DOB | 1960.06.17

Email | berlin@jaguarlacroix.com     

Web | www.jaguarlacroix.com

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Statement | Jaguar Lacroix

Jaguar Lacroix inspirations are literature, film, sound, and an ongoing fascination with the human condition via the socio-political collective régimes of everyday fascism, this informs expression in the mediums of installation, video, 2 D works, and photography.

Deus Ex Machina, 4'17min, 2005
Dealing extensively with the spaces of the abject 1, where an aesthetic of terrible beauty , as much as the beauty to be found in what is terrible holds sway. Deus ex is a commentary on beauty as currency 2, the consumer's mouth, disappearance; a cannibalism of the real, cycles of flow, nihilism and catatonia...infinity. Alone and with nothing more than a conveyer belt of death... [...]

1. An exile that asks, "where?"
The one by whom the abject exists is thus a deject who places (himself), separates (himself), situates (himself), and therefore strays instead of getting his bearings, desiring, belonging, or refusing. Situationist in a sense, and not without laughter - since laughter is a way of placing or displacing abjection. Necessarily dichotomous, somewhat Manichaean, he divides, excludes and without properly speaking, wishing to know his abjections is not at all unaware of them. Often moreover, he includes himself among them, thus casting within himself the scalpel that carries out his separations.

Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror, An Essay on Abjection . Columbia University Press 1982

2. The better you look the more you see.

Brett Easton Ellis, Glamorama. Picador 1998