wilight mechanics, the second solo show of Jan Baracz at Peninsula, is a window onto the unfathomable—a visceral dissection of the state of unconscious on the landfill of the Anthropocene.
Walk into a space to witness familiar narratives collapse in the face of techno-economic “progress”. In the new body of work, Baracz examines the impact of the atrophy of social bonds, the dissolution of norms, and the erosion of common values—all amplified by technological exploits into the frayed fabric of human relations—on the individual psyche.
Using materials sourced from the fringes of industrial production, Baracz crafts works that redirect the gaze inward into what is unseen, the submerged regions of human psyche. His probing, associative poetic re-reframes modes of human perception, and manifests ways our reality, impacted and reshaped by the colossal disfiguration from the ongoing humanitarian and environmental crises, is misconstrued.
