Jacksun Bein (b. 2002, Louisiana) is interested in subject-object relations (aka body-sculpture relations), psycho-sexual tropes, and image capture/release. Bein’s work operates as performative networks spanning writing, sculpture, images, and dead/alive/immortal emptiness. (My father is a psychotherapist and my mother, a real estate agent. I was born to 2 kinds of private: psyche and property).
Alongside an artistic practice, Bein is working on long term research of American prison museums which investigates invisibility, dictation, and spectacles of the sub-human. The project has focused on the Angola Museum at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, evidence and object presentation in NYC criminal court, a tour for the blind at the Eastern State Penitentiary, and the Ohio State Reformatory’s Paranormal Psychic Convention.
image by Matías Alvial