LAST CHANCE Khalid Jauffer: Looking, dwelling, leaving

Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. “Discarded objects and broken things are legible to a bypasser primarily as ends, trash, the leftovers of a story that’s done being told; it is through a process of care and attention that Khalid transforms found ends into beginnings, unravelling tightly wound threads of human fragility encased in unremarkable shells … The simple act of looking is a necessary precursor to finding, it is crucially differentiated from ‘seeking’ in that it is open-ended: it doesn’t prescribe its outcome …”