Jennifer Taylor CV
Jennifer Taylor creates elaborate interiors out of control kitchens or 'mad professor' laboratories that at times exude a baroque sensuality and at others resemble Heath Robinson contraptions. Investigating the visual world around us, she uses an ever-expanding array of materials to create chaotic labyrinths of intertwining pipes, tube mechanisms and quotidian objects. She makes use of different viewing spaces and apertures to challenge her medium and plays with the language of sculpture by using familiar domestic contraptions such as mincers, juicers, vacuum cleaner hoses or washing machine extractors. Within her installations, these objects transcend their original functions as they are transformed into absurd instruments with bizarre or dark tasks to perform.
Taylor often ‘whites-out’ her constructions to create a bleached, ethereal reflection of reality. Drained of their real colour, ordinary logic is lost and the viewer is able to be transported to the realm of fiction or the language of dreams. This is not a wholly benign world - Taylor's work is also the repository of an anxiety that feeds off the iconography of horror films as much as it stems from the fear of the mutation of cancer cells or the degeneration of the human mind. At their heart, her installations explore that energy that exists at the moment of breakdown or change.
Jennifer Taylor graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007. She has participated in group shows internationally including the prestigious Jen Rêve , at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris and Says the Junk in the Yard, Flowers, London. She had her first solo show at the Wyer Gallery, London, in early 2008.