Juxtapoz Magazine – 99¢ Dreams: Jane Dickson’s Memories of Past and Present

Jane Dickson what look to be snapshots from a slow going vehicle. Some textual content could be minimize off, or a detail of a signpost may perhaps be zoomed into, and the hazy memory of the past will come back to you as a result of a sense of place and unknowable time. The performs are silent, which produces a juxtaposition of a thing eerily peaceful and jarring NYC when its quiet at night time nevertheless has a significant hum. 99¢ Goals, Dickson’s new solo show at James Fuentes in NYC and her very first considering the fact that her do the job was chosen at the 2022 Whitney Biennial (aptly themed Quiet As It really is Retained), is equally an homage and current tense discussion about New York, with a perception of pandemic isolation and a town that is struggling to once once again discover its footing. 

”At this issue in my existence, my trajectory is not linear anymore, it really is a spiral,” Dickson said in the exhibition catalog. “Around the very last two several years, I experienced time to reconsider my record. I am a different human being and the entire world is a distinctive spot and this community, as it stood, no lengthier exists. This perform of Occasions Sq. that’s from ’80s photographs is definitely the initial time I am looking back again on some thing that’s gone. Up until now, my subject matter has been that I am typically seeking at factors that are anachronistic in the current. […] I feel that point of view virtually means the place you might be hunting from. I am not supplying you a common reality: this is what this corner of present-day fact appears to be like to me from my spot, appropriate now.” 

In this feeling, I find Dickson’s function akin or in dialogue with Matt Bollinger, who we showcased in our Spring 2022 edition and also speaks to the American psyche of time both equally shed and a present so in will need of re-evaluation. Dickson is performing from memory, memorializing a time but also knowing that these forgotten destinations continue to exist and have a life that hums alongside, even just after you leave. It is really a impressive aspiration. —Evan Pricco