Jasager (Yes-Sayer), 2025
Wild Trupets
Duo-show by Vincent Matuschka and Gianna T
Jasager Gans (Yes-Sayers Goose), 2025, Mixed-media sculpture
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Jasager Reh (Yes-Sayers Deer), 2025, Mixed-media sculpture
Jasager Fuchs (Yes-Sayers Fox), 2025, Mixed-media sculpture
Vincent Matuschka’s sculptural installation The Yes-Sayers (2025) reimagines the form of a children’s toy in a
social commentary that examines the ways in which our environments shape, and
might even curtail, our capacity for critical thinking. A group of
semi-anthropomorphised animals dressed in the office uniform of a shirt and tie
are conceived as roly-poly toys trapped in continuous motion. Mechanically
activated, they rock back-and-forth, their rounded bottoms preventing their
seemingly inevitable toppling.
Compulsively nodding in a gesture
of agreement, the bobbing animals represent the outlook of individuals
entrapped within the limitations of their own small slice of the world. The act
of play evoked by the form of the toy is transformed into an expression of
complicity and loss of subjectivity as the characters are cast as cogs in a
capitalist machine of labour. Uniting humour with critique, The Yes-Sayers brings to the fore the
subtexts that underpin markers of socio-economic success to ask how the bounds
of individuality and personal expression might be delineated by the daily
contexts in which we exist.
Exhibition shots:
Backgound: Gianna T, Once Upon a Time, 2025 Performance
Jasager Gans (Yes-Sayers Goose), 2025, Mixed-media sculpture
Jasager Reh (Yes-Sayers Deer), 2025, Mixed-media sculpture
