Without Persons
Luis Jacob
May 5 - June 20, 2009

Without Persons, video still from installation at scotiabank nuit blanche, 2008

Without Persons is a large-scale video installation consisting of two facing screens in which pools of white liquid take on mouth or anus-like shapes as they conform to the sound of disembodied voices. Passing from stillness, to animation, and back to stillness again, the voices speak about the experience of being in the city, being with others, and the strangeness in which what is familiar in these experiences can become unfamiliar.

Luis Jacob is an artist, educator, curator, and writer living in Toronto, Canada. His art practice includes video, performance, photography and actions in the public domain. Central to Jacob’s work is his concern for the philosophical and cultural possibilities of social interaction. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions both on a national and international scale including documenta12 in Kassel, Germany in 2007 and, in June 2009, a solo exhibition entitled 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude, will be held at the Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Luis Jacob is represented by Birch Libralato, Toronto.