Jayce Salloum |
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Jayce Salloum
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Jayce Salloum, as if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories (most everywhere), observes the world and creates/collects a subjective archive of images to make meaning from. Since arriving here - by no means of his own volition - he tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants he was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. After 21 years living and working elsewheres he planted himself on the unceded Xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh + Səíl̓wətaʔł territories. Salloum has lectured and published pervasively and exhibited somewhat peripatetically at the widest range of local and international venues possible and most improbable, from the smallest unnamed storefronts in his downtown eastside Vancouver neighbourhood to institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of Canada, Bienal De La Havana, Sharjah Biennial, Biennale of Sydney and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Visit his Vimeo account and Instagram account for more information
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Work by Jayce
Artist Statement: beyond now
beyond now is a project for this time, in and out of quarantine time pondering how to tackle the point that we find ourselves in now and in the unforeseeable future and the politics of fear, regression, pain, promise and hope that surround us. I’ve started and stopped several stabs at things, a message comes at an opportune albeit heavily pressurized time requesting a response. I don’t normally produce work upon such short notice, with a short time frame, usually labouring over projects for years, trying to produce something resonant. Nevertheless I am interested in trying to think this period, this time, through into something useful. Your enthusiasm is convincing and breaks my indeterminate ennui. I had started by collecting fragments of text, correspondence with others and writing bits and pieces since I got back here (literally from the jungle) so am making it somewhat of a daily practice. The form becomes a sutured manifesto disguised as poetic ramblings and rants out into the void. Jayce Salloum
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