Jack O’Brien’s practice, which encompasses installation, sculpture, painting, and drawing, explores the conflict between desire and consumption and chaos and discipline alongside concurrent tenets that dominate life under structures of late capitalism. As such, he considers desire and longing in relation to other contemporary concerns, including industrialization, the commercialization of contemporary art, the construct of the city (London, in particular), austerity, and eroticism.
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