ACCURSED GILDED WISHES

Jay Kochel

27 August - 2 October 2010 | CCAS Gorman

As a result of recent fieldwork in Europe this body of work focuses on the magical artifact – reliquaries, voodoo dolls, votive objects, folk magic, juju, ex voto – objects that incorporate human remains or a mimesis of the body. Where there is a material and psychic strategy to harness a spiritual or magical affect. The transference of energy, heat or mana between body and object as a means by which the material world is animated, charged up, and exerts force over people – an exploration of gods in the making.

Image: Jay Kochel, The Gilded, 2010, fat, gilded aluminium, gut, glass, chain. Photo by Brenton McGeachie