At the Artissima fair, Jack Warne’s installation, titled My Folded Ear, Meets Your Retina, offers an immersive and sensory experience where this temporal duality comes to life. The space, divided in two, is structured around a central domestic sink – a familiar, industrial object that has become a symbol of symbolic fracture.

This central element, whose metallic neutrality robs it of its identity, embodies the dichotomy of cognitive processes: on one side, the analytical prefrontal cortex; on the other, the emotional limbic system. The sink, both a domestic and industrial object, invites the viewer to reflect on the nature of our perception in a world where the ordinary transforms into an anonymous industrial space.

The duality of the installation, symbolized by the sink, is reinforced by the arrangement of mural works. Each wall presents two canvases that embody two facets of the same memory, the same photographic image. Some works come from the artist’s photo and VHS archives, such as Miyle Oldhs Jack – an image of his sister holding him as an infant – while others come from recent photos taken by the artist, like Shasa Eerps Into Teh Mirror, offering a view of his present.

Traces of the Journey to Sicily

For the first time, Warne steps away from family archives to capture moments from his own life, influenced by a recent journey to Palermo, Sicily. This trip directly impacted his work, as the artist captured sounds and images that enrich the materiality of his paintings and installations. The artworks My Defold Ear Teems Your Etinar and My Olfedd Rea Teems Your Retina, created in Sicily, reveal a “microscopic” or “granular” view of the world, visible in the meticulous details of Sicilian landscapes and textures, thus explaining the installation’s title.

These fragments, transfigured and displaced, evoke ephemeral impressions, a visual memory that both Warne and the viewer attempt to grasp.

Augmented Reality: The Hidden Story of Images

The addition of augmented reality filters intensifies this exploration, allowing the public to discover different temporalities through contrasting perceptual rhythms, fast and slow, that intersect and oppose each other. “I want each piece to appear as a frozen instant, articulated in a way that destabilizes our own perception. The brain-machine interface offers further potential to achieve this perceptual compromise,” says Jack Warne. These augmented realities, accessible via QR codes placed in the central sink of the installation, open a field of exploration where the tangible and intangible meet, inviting the viewer to question their own perception.

Selected exhibitions include: Sweet Harmony: Rave; Curtain Call London, (2024); Frieze Seoul, Mai 36 Galerie, South Korea (2024); Double Take, LVH, London (2024); Art Brussels, Spiaggia Libera, Belgium (2024); Sparks, Future Gallery, Berlin (2024), Art Basel, Mai 36 Galerie, Hong Kong, (2024); The Safe Spots Become Impassable, Ethan & Yisi, Hong KongBehold, Hypha Studios, London (2023); Mirage Genesis, New York (2023);Perfect Partner in the Near Future, YUELAI Art; Museum, Chongqing, China (2022-2023) ; Worm At the Core, SET, London (2022); In Crystallized Time, MoM, Seattle, 2021 ; Rtapte, Castor Gallery, London (2021) ; Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending, London (2021); 06, PM/ AM, London (2020-2021);

In Our Blood, I Thought You Were Dancing?, Limbo, London (2020); Terra Nexus, Proposition Studios, London (2020); Graduate Show, Royal College Of Art, London (2019); Reverse Landscape, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2019); Relay, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2019); I Like Your Work, Royal College Of Art, London (2018); Capital, Barbican Centre, London (2018);Digital Makers Collective, Tate Modern, London (2017); London Design Festival, London College of Communication, London (2017); Perfume Synaesthesia Late, Somerset House, London (2017); and Neuroscience & Diversity, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2017).