Jason Dodge/Tereza Buskova
Five different professionals have cut a pocket from their trousers, in order of altitude: ‘Pilot, Window washer, Acrobat, Ballet dancer, Judge’. The first of US artist Jason Dodge’s works, in a see-through case, is just that: a clutch of dainty fabric pockets sitting on top of one another. I take issue with his ordering. Surely judges (in this country at least) sit higher up on their platforms than most ballet dancers ever reach in their jumps or lifts? Or maybe I should be counting the stage they leap about on (the dancers, not the judges)? No matter, I’ve entered into Dodge’s cerebral game, in which imagination is nine-tenths of the work; the narrative description drives the mind’s eye to distraction, and the object is almost the last thing you see.
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