Blogs We Like | Taj Bourgeois
You might recognize Taj Bourgeois from his numerous posts in The Jogging, which we covered last year. The Jogging was (before its apparent hiatus in August) a repository for juxtaposition and sly social criticism, a kind of Onion-y mix of conceptual art practice and taking the piss.
Bourgeois’ non-Jogging work retains much of this critical juice, but instead pours more of it onto gallery pretension than pop culture. “Space” is eternally in flux, and ripped of its apparent stability or intention, confusing the line between installation and disruption. The outdoors, galleries, his son’s high chair—a slew of environments are invaded to support an ongoing challenge to concrete, curated reality.
Consequently, much of Bourgeois’ work feels jovial, gleefully anarchic without lapsing into simple opposition or destruction. His grocery store work is perhaps most emblematic of this volatile proletarianism, not only rearranging and re-appropriating its surroundings but doing so without falling into base/flat anti-consumerism. What Bourgeois’ weird and sometimes subtle spatial play does yield, though, is an energized enthusiasm, a kind of intense presence and imagination that promises a continued fertile evolution of its process and media.
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