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Suspended between a sketchily rendered plane and a digitally distorted pool, the jumper in Allen Mack’s painting balances on the border between two worlds: the human and the synthetic. The scene, though seemingly clear, raises more doubts with each passing moment. It is not only a formal play with the aesthetics of glitch and sketch, but above all a story about the desire for freedom and the uncertainty that accompanies every ‘leap into the unknown’. Inspired by technology but consciously distanced from it, the artist creates images like an algorithm fed by memories, intuition and anxiety. Jump becomes a metaphor for breaking out of an oppressive reality – an act always fraught with the risk of new enslavement. Perhaps, however, it is precisely in this moment of suspension, between fear and hope, that the space for true freedom is born.
