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JACOB SUTTON

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

JacobSutton

For Bermuda Triangle, the 4-artist exhibition now open through December 19th at London’s Spring Projects, Bath-born British artist Jacob Sutton collaborated with set designer Hana Al-Sayed on a series of filmed and photographed performances that explore the delicacies of time, record the aesthetics of ruination and conjure the otherworldly. Composed of basic materials—primarily either milk or flour, “almost like a cake mix,” according to Sutton—their orchestrated situations allow for experiences of fragile, magical obliteration. A runner bounds through a crumbling tower of flour; a vat of milk crashes with abandon. On his attraction to explosion and destruction, Sutton, who cites his artist father and haute visual-prankster Roman Signer as influences, says he “finds a certain calm in chaotic processes.” A very good thing given that his work is instilled with an innate and airily absolute sense of the carnivalesque.