Baby, [Hackers] are we, 2021
2019
The work was included in “In Practice: Other Objects” at SculptureCenter, an exhibition curated by Gee Wesley in 2019, exploring how the lives of objects extend beyond their immediate function or context. The show gathered artists whose work examines the shifting status of material things, considering how objects can be repurposed, reimagined, or reactivated as vessels of history, narrative, or speculation.
Jackson approaches the piece as a way of tending to and sustaining memory, engaging with the legacies of family and place through the transformation of inherited materials. Watch an excerpt here.