JORDAN WOLFSON

Jordan Wolfson’s practice in the past ten years has included video, film, installation, performance, print and photography. Since 2009 he has focused on an ambitious series of animations that could be considered a trilogy, _Con Leche, _2009, _Animation Masks, _2011, and _Raspberry Poser, _2012. Presented here is Con Leche, in which an army of cartoon Diet Coke bottles filled with milk parade across an empty city (real-life footage of Detroit), slopping their contents as they stroll. Installed in a darkened space which recreates the immersive ‘black box’ of a picture house, the video brims with cinematic references: the bottles imply an homage to the dancing brooms of Disney’s Fantasia. Wolfson also injects elements of documentary, advertising and music video, exposing the stylistic foibles and formulae of each. The scopophilic focus on the milk bottles, initially suggestive of advertising, begins to evoke the roving camera of pornography. The soundtrack is likewise a hybrid which produces continual changes of ‘footing’: a female actor recites texts lifted from the internet, while Wolfson interrupts her with his own directions, adding distortion to the already distorted world presented and unravelled in Con Leche. Jordan Wolfson (b. 1980, New York) lives in New York and Berlin; he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.