JANE BUYERS and ZACHARI LOGAN: Hang upon tomorrow and lose today

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Zachari Logan, "Cut-Flowers", 2016

ceramic and paint

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.”  So writes Seneca in his treatise On the Shortness of Life, wherein he pontificates on labour, preoccupation and devotion to one’s own pursuits. Viewed with a mind to the exquisite beauty and shortness of life, Jane Buyers and Zachari Logan share uncanny and intrinsic connections between their practices.

Together the artists share aesthetics, experimentation with medium and an instrumentalization of nature (through the still life and historical, literary and real life botanical references). Between the artists there is a clear discourse spanning repetition, labour, sexuality and gender. Their works demonstrative of their rituals and habits, acting as a record of their exacting gestures. Their rigorous practices emblematic of a life-long preoccupation and pleasure in the daily journey of pursuit.