Jo Jackson: Kavi Gupta Gallery.

From: Artforum International | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Yood, James | Copyright information

One advantage of creating a narrative within a personal pictorial universe is that you can steer it in any direction you want it to go. Viewers function as voyeurs, witnesses to a mythography they will never fully decode. The work in Jo Jackson's recent exhibition "Victory Over the Sun" at Kavi Gupta Gallery was of precisely this ilk: A dozen works on paper and a silent, looped, three-minute 16-mm film projection immersed viewers in a self-contained fantasy realm.

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