Jan Robert Leegte at OFFICE IMPART with solo "selection"
Jan Robert Leegte at OFFICE IMPART with solo "selection"
The solo exhibition "Selection" by Jan Robert Leegte opens the 5th of September at OFFICE IMPART (Berlin).
In his practice, Jan Robert Leegte has been exploring the materiality of everyday digital and online environments and cultures since the 1990s. He strips the elements of these virtual realities of their original context and meaning. Like a semiotician of the digital age, he reduces the digital to a building block and delves deeply into the functioning of its various elements. In his ongoing series JPEG (2022 onwards), Leegte presents not the image as JPEG, but the JPEG itself, as compression method and image file type. And then there is the scrollbar, which has recurred in many contexts and forms in Leegte's practice since 1997 – in both the virtual and physical realms; as a website and as a sculpture. The scrollbar is a transformative everyday object, like the separate words in Barthes's analysis, that constantly takes on new meanings – and appearances – in different constellations. A cultural construction with no identifiable author. Words also exist outside the literary realm, just as the scrollbar – and the pixels or ones and zeros of which it is composed – functions outside the field of art. The unveiling of materiality and the stripping of meaning, in turn, seem to be reserved for the realms of literature and art.
Read more information on the exhibition here.
"Selection“ by Jan Robert Leegte | OFFICE IMPART
5 Sept – 18 Oct, 2024
OPENING: 5 Sept | 18.00 - 21.00 hrs