Love Songs to the World of Matter, 2024 Love Songs to the World of Matter documents the artist Jeroen Jacobs casting a concrete sculpture, and proposes the artist’s studio as a site of research into material reality. Focusing on the specific processes and choreographies of Jacobs’ materialist practice, we watch him wrestle with sand, plastic, water and concrete, all interacting with each other to produce the final sculptural form. Jacobs’ open approach collaborates with these materials instead of subduing them: the form isn’t prefabricated or fixed, but one that is negotiated or found in dialog with the specific properties of each material. His sculptural process becomes a visible choreography of uncertainty, patience, surprise and attention, all emergent in real time. The analogue 16mm footage documenting his studio investigations is contrasted with footage of a 3D scan of the finished sculpture, emphasizing the dissimilitude between the messy procedures of the studio and the weightless abstraction of its digital representation.
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