Documentation of Currie's and Jensen's ehxhibition.

From left to right: Man's Ruin by Darryl Jensen, Reduction Point by Jamal Currie, and fragment of Resurrection by Jensen.


Reduction Point, Resurrection and Epiphany by Jensen.



“temporary contemporary” opens its doors on Friday, June 22nd, 6–-9 pm with a two person exhibition of JAMAL CURRIE (video/video installation) and DARRYL JENSEN (print). Currie’s and Jensen’s works with their cinematic references pay tribute to the primary function of the space the gallery is located in, now defunct (and soon to be restored) Avalon Theater. Their grainy, pixelated images also challenge our expectations of high-definition, operating on the level of bare recognizability. The viewer is put in a precarious situation in which despair and hope, repulsion and delight, danger and safety are separated only by a very fine line defined by limitations of our perception. Currie’s video installation Reduction Point reconfigures fragments of his previous video works (also on display) into a high-contrast low-resolution projection. This shimmering, ghostly piece plays with the basics of the medium and the notions of what is essential in order to perceive, while simultaneously creating a poetic sequence of images, in which dream and nightmare, fascinating and repulsive weave in and out of each other. Jensen’s brand new large-scale print installation Resurrection (6' x 12') utilizes a composite of movie stills to suggest a hopeful, perhaps romantic, encounter. It simultaneously contrasts with and provides a punctuation to his photo-lithographic diptychs which juxtapose stills of black and white B-movies in order to speak of entrapments and distresses of interpersonal relationships. Jensen’s pieces dialogue with one another to create a larger narrative of failures, hopes and redemptions we encounter as much on a movie screen as in our personal lives.