Jenny Yurshansky:
“I often make use of negative space and erasure, in the form of deductive reasoning, to determine that which is known by first establishing what is not known.”
Jenny Yurshansky’s works depict politically charged subjects, while addressing the viewer’s corporal and sensual experience. Yurshansky employs a reduced idiom as if she wishes to sharpen the viewer’s perception by erasing and removing rather than turning up the volume. In Projection (I Have A Dream), she reproduces Martin Luther King’s historic speech on a poster whose message is only hinted at by the remaining dots. In This Is Only A Test, the normative and the correct lose their function when thirteen different colour tests, used to calibrate computer and television screens according to the prevailing standard, are projected on top of one another. In Forever Yours, an intimate greeting is transformed into a standardised phrase which every visitor takes home with them.
Jenny Yurshansky’s practice includes sculpture, installation and site-specific interventions. She has participated in a number of exhibitions, mainly in the US and in Sweden, most recently in a solo show at Galleri Rostrum in Malmö in 2010. Jenny Yurshansky lives and works in Los Angeles and Stockholm. She was educated at the University of California Irvine and the Malmö Art Academy.
Dan Wolgers, artist and member of the Board of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation:
Russia is connected to Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is connected to Western Europe which is connected to Italy which is connected to Rome. Rome is connected to Jenny Yurshansky. Jenny Yurshansky is connected to North America which is connected to the USA. The USA is connected to California which is connected to the UCLA and Jenny. Yurshansky and the UCLA are connected to Malmö Art Academy which is connected to Jenny. Yurshansky is connected to Jenny who is connected to Yurshansky. Jenny and Yurshansky are connected. Between Jenny and Yurshansky art is connected, in the gap. In the distance between Jenny and Yurshansky art is connected. Art is connected to the gap and in the gap sits Jenny. Yurshansky is connected to the art. The art is connected to the world that surrounds Jenny Yurshansky. Between Jenny and Yurshansky twirls a gold wire that creates an invisible space in an invisible time. It’s art’s space time where her art events take place here and now on the world line – or not.