Drawings, fused together with bony structures appear like hybrid instruments, “stands” for diagnosis, which at the same time become tools for digging or drilling oneself out.
Bright blots pulse through the images in unknown epithelial locations, forcing kneading and crumpling on almost every part of the body.
Anxiety mingles with hypochondria and the wavy, segmented backbones, like some sort of psychogeological samples, call for a closer inspection as if they were just extracted from the spots of greatest concern.
Worry Bone
Algirdas Jakas
HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg
February 11-13, 2022
Photography: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2022, Exhibition view. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2022, Exhibition view. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Lead, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Lead, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Drawing, Polymer clay, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim
Algirdas Jakas, Worry Bone, 2021, Epoxy resin, Variable dimensions. Photo: Jaewon Kim