Artist and curator Paul Jones continues the exploration of liminal spaces, separate from but parallel with reality.

The first iteration of HETEROTOPIA — DISJUNCTURE took place in 2022 at 19a Parade Mews, London. Presenting the work of 6 international artists, the show was intended as a window into a space within a space, an uncanny familiarity, as if viewing reality through rippled glass.

HETEROTOPIA DISJUNCTURE II takes this moment as the point of departure: an immersion into the incoherence and intensity of a flawed symmetry, the world inside the mirror.

Layered with contradictions, HDII hones in on heterotopic spaces as experience, familiar states and scenarios, their antitheses, merging into one, activating one another. Here, the rupture is a moment, an occurrence, and the reverberations that follow. Shifting temporalities challenge familiar narratives, possibilities growing from the cracks.

HETEROTOPIA DISJUNCTURE II is a machination, an attempt to create spaces where time can exist on different planes, an ‘ el sewhere’ where the rules of society are both replicated, enhanced, dissolved and re-imagined.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38803