THE AESTHETICS OF CHANCE:
JOSHUA JOBB
OPINION REGINA DE CON
PHOTOS BY ROGELIO REYNOSO
To know x =
to know (everything – x)
René Dumal
Pataphysics And The Revelation
Of Laugher
NATURAL INTERVENTIONS PRESENTS A SOLO SHOW BY Mexican artist Joshua Jobb. His pieces of art works around concepts such as chance, play, accident and the unexpected. His artworks use materials designed for a context that through his intervention suddenly become
something else.
Behind the work of the Mexican artist there are close ties with writers such as Voltaire, ldous Huxley, and Italo Calvino, among others. Books play as much a role in his creative process, as random walking does. Yet header inspiration comes from the Pataphysics, by René Dumal: Definition.- Pataphysics is the science of the imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuaulity, to their lineaments Jarry). It is the knowledge of the particular and the irreductible, therefore the reverse of physics 1 . A maximum skepticism can be deducted, one in which knowledge seems impossible. Chase the chance, because causality is a mere illusion. The world is unfinished, remaining without logical comprehension. In this context, to play makes sense, precisely because taking life very seriously, doesn’t: Play, which is as fascinating as catastrophe, allows you positively to
glimpse the giddy seductiveness of chance 2
1 René Dumal, Pataphysical Essays, Wakefield Press, tr. Thomas Vosteen, p.7.
2 George Bataille, Chance, 1944 in Chance IBID, p.30.