Jesse Hogan: We Can’t Put it Together. It is Together.

Overview

"In the end, our knowledge will have its revenge on us." (Nietzche)

In his latest exhibition We Can’t Put it Together. It is Together. Jesse Hogan peers behind the curtain to see if there really is life after death. No, Hogan is not about to start preaching or perform live experiments a la Flatliners. But as with Flatliners, Hogan is interested in what happens when something ‘dies,' but doesn’t go away.

Painting. The Rorschach Ink blot test. Plastic bags. All of these enjoyed a glorious hey-day in which they were hailed as triumphs of humankind. Yet each has also experienced a cultural backlash, ridiculed as evidence of yesteryear’s foolishness and dismissed as outdated failures. Perhaps the product of Gen-Y cynicism, Hogan asks his audience a simple question - what, if anything, can be taken at face value?