‘Key case (Lovers II)’ forms part of the larger body of work ‘All the things you are’. In this body of work cardboard, wood, resin, rubber, and steel key boxes sit beside and inside paintings, unsettling any easy hierarchy of support and subject. A security key cabinet may hinge into a picture, or a picture may stretch to accommodate hardware; value implied by the canvas meets the stubborn life of materials. In this fold between the elevated and the everyday, Ginsburg tests what kinds of attention art can ask for and receive, and its ability to sharpen or complicate our habits of looking.

Jared Ginsburg uses art-making to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer. He recognises art as a tool, a means to test and probe the world, hoping to nurture new strategies for productive engagement. Ginsburg employs a range of media types in his practice, including painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance. Seeking “indeterminacy or chance operations” in his process, Ginsburg’s studio plays a significant role; at once a lab, an instrument and a character in conversation.