Fiona Jack

please take one

Jack’s Nomad installation “PLEASE TAKE ONE” relates to a body of work dealing with, to put it simply, countries’ borders and rights. In a time when birth-right dictates ones privileges -or lack of- Jack scrutinized the notion of what divides one country from another in its simplest form, a line.

‘PLEASE TAKE ONE’ existed for one night only. Jack hand-copied every shared border in The New Internationalist map of the world; reduced the resulting line into a small card; stacked them into pockets organized in alphabetical order and finally placed them across the three billboards (PLEASE-TAKE-ONE) thus, the first pocket on the PLEASE billboard contained drawings of the Afghani and Chinese border whilst the last pocket on the ONE billboard contained the Uzbek and Turkmenistani.

Fiona Jack’s art practice has long been engaged with the use of billboards. Since 1997 she has made interventions into aggressive advertising with pieces such as “NOTHING” and “SILENCE”. Jack was born and raised in Auckland, N.Z where she received her Bachelor in Art & Design. Jack has recently completed her M.A in fine arts at the Californian Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles.

http://www.tworooms.org.nz/exhibitions/fionajack/

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