Jacob Love struck in Line of Flight

Reflective: Jacob Love’s Porchester Deep/What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
5 April 2012

Among the overcrowded, post-YBA generation of photographers, Jacob Love struck lucky — briefly mentored by wünderkind Wolfgang Tillmans, he now lands a solo exhibition in a West End gallery. The tiny white-walled room is lined with photographs of a bright, geometric confusion inside hangar-like spaces. They are actually the interiors of swimming pools.

By inverting and flipping the pools, then engineering meticulous digital manipulations, Love tampers with our perceptions and creates artificially beautiful, disorientating spaces. Some are dizzyingly abstract. Others — like the Kensington Deep —are almost meditational.

The Alice in Wonderland questions of real and apparent, material and virtual, have both an abstract and a practical interpretation — even if the titles, like "the feeling stage of already having acquired those wants", fly close to pretension. In re-interpreting such familiar spaces, Love creates a beauty that doesn’t exist in reality, and with his muted colours and almost scientific compositions, all points to an interesting future.

Diane Arbus: until 27 June (020 740 93344, www.timothytaylorgallery.com). Line of Flight: until 9 June (020 7379 9464, www.tenderpixel.com).

Jacob Love: Line of Flight
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