Jerome Basserode

A sculptor and installation artist Jerome Basserode's work betrays his fascination with the world of objects, passing time and nomadic cultures. His work is a tentative look at universal questions. He constructs his transient, provocative and sensitive pieces from organic/natural materials. His work moves across the borders of time and geography and his current works, which are often rooted in his own near mythic journeys, explore the dialogue between Africa and Europe

Jerome Basserode's work.

Present, past, future + 0 - 0, 999..., 2000

These three old faithfuls mark our concept of time or its boundaries as we see it on a daily basis from our own perspective, manipulateable and even debatable memories that we carry with us.

In Africa, some languages or dialects based on oral tradition have developed different concepts of time - without any past and future. There is just an all-enveloping present which includes people and everything else.

Present in the past, present in the future, these two forms based on these three old faithfuls relate us back to an artificial centre point suggested by the starting of a rotational movement, such as time which has been suspended or has disappeared.

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