Char Jeré
Bio: Char Jeré (she/they) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Jeré is a filmmaker, sculptor, and sound artist whose work explores issues at the intersection of a lot of shit. Jeré’s multi genre approach moves across experimental videos, documentary films, sound sculptures, and site specific installations. Their works have been shown at Hofstra University, Half Gallery, Chashama, New York Art Book Fair, CLEA RSKY Gallery, IRCAM Festival and the Jewish Museum. In 2021 Jeré was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Award, and in 2020 they participated in a residency at the School for Poetic Computation.
http://theworldresearchlab.com/
Instagram: @jeredotcom
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My practice is based on an approach that merges my background in data science with my passion for social, economic, and environmental justice. I work with the perishable, the recycled, and the generative. I embrace the discrepancy, and thrive in what Glissant calls the “nonworld.” I forage for the rare breed of cardboard found in lonely furniture stores and carry them home to build ephemeral dreams. I practice alchemy in my laboratory across the street, any street, where I distill herbs, intentions, knowledge, and citrus to create essential oils for the archive. My current work is a memorial to the hair that gathers at the nape of my neck. I am calling this piece Nightmares of Being Straight, featuring 4c The Future, a character I developed to help innovate new histories for the hot comb, the hair drying chair, the grease, the perm, and the desire. A multi-sensory experience that incorporates data sonification and cosmic technologies in order to build an earthquake salon for my inner child.
L to R: Nightmares of Being Straight (Mixed clay, paper, cardboard, microcontroler, lights, tv, electronic components, acrylic, oil, charcoal, tape, and books, 2023); Nightmares of Being Straight, Periodic Table of Black Revolutionaries (Weathering), (2022)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: The Community Distiallation (60" x 48" 4", Metal, video, foam board, books, still, prism, 2022); The Community Distiallation (60" x 48" 4", Metal, video, foam board, books, still, prism, 2022); The Community Distiallation (60" x 48" 4", Metal, video, foam board, books, still, prism, 2022)
