Patrick Jackson: House of Double

"Before this work shipped to London it was installed in a two-bedroom Los Angeles apartment. I invited friends over to see the work, took pictures and had everything down within a week. The install was brief, but for me the apartment was the ideal setting. It was seedy, patched together with stain-hiding carpet, lighting fixtures sampled from the last fifty years and walls caked with paint. The space worked well because it highlighted both the sculptural details and the narrative aspects of the work. Alone in the apartment I was hyper aware of these objects and their surroundings, from the dust on the blinds to the sounds of the traffic outside. The experience was also cinematic with death, perversion and the foreshadowing of violence. 

Here at the fair, things are different. The details seem muted and the booth brings no particular narrative to mind, except for maybe that of a prop shop - a place where objects are stored, waiting for a future story. The one thing I can say about the work, which seems to persist no matter where it’s placed, is that it relates to the body and specifically the hands."

— Patrick Jackson