jay rechsteiner

Earlier work

An expanding archive of earlier paintings, films, sculptures, installations and other projects. Individual pages contain images, documentation and, where available, the original project texts.

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streets, paintings shown on a wall

streets

Painting · 2013–2015

Paintings of cities seen from above, with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities as a point of reference.

How to Make a Monster, exhibition documentation

How to Make a Monster

Exhibition and related works · Basel, 2012

An exhibition and a group of works considering how someone comes to see, or be seen, as a monster.

To All My Friends

To All My Friends

Public interventions and photography · 2005–2013

A series of unofficial dedications of public places, buildings and institutions to friends and acquaintances.

Gaischterhuus (Ghost House), installation

Gaischterhuus (Ghost House)

Installation, sculpture, drawing and film

An interconnected installation of four elements, including The Blue Room and Kinderfresser (Child Eater).

Weltschmerz: Demeter mourning for Persephone

Weltschmerz: Demeter mourning for Persephone

Installation, video and performance

An installation bringing together mythology, performance and moving image, presented at At the Violet Hour in Margate.

Multiple view, sculpture made with canvas frames

Multiple view – Positionen und Versuche

Sculpture and video

Four nested canvas frames rearranged into different sculptural positions and balances.

Life is a memory, dead plant displayed on a shelf

Life is a memory

Object / installation proposal · London, 2014

A dead plant on a small shelf, with a proposal for an expanded wall installation.

Pool, photograph from the project

Pool

Video, photographs and prints

A looping video of 1 minute 35 seconds, accompanied by photographs and prints.

The Podomotist's Machine

The Podomotist's Machine

Process-based, site-responsive project · 2014 · unfinished

A proposed sequence of works developed in response to particular locations, with documentation of Work #1 at Queensdown Road, London.

structure, anonymous, print work

structure

Interrelated works · 2014–2015

A series exploring relationships between structures, constructions and change through prints, moving image, collage and sculptural propositions.

Video still for Action Drawings, 2014

Drawing in the Air

Two video works · 2014

Drawing gestures performed in the air and subsequently traced with lines over the recorded footage.

War drawings, collaborative drawing battle

War drawings

Participatory drawings · Includes work from 2013

Drawing battles between two or more participants, using a dividing line and rules that remain open to negotiation.

Shown separately here because the documented 2013 battles were not part of the 2012 How to Make a Monster exhibition.

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