Soul Retrieval is an installation of sculptures and works on paper departing from a series of time travels, during which J&K have investigated time layers as far back as 75 million years in an experimental “archeological” excavation process.

The sculptures in the show are assembled from a wide variety of materials crafted, found and bought by J&K, forming absurd, surrealistic hybrids hovering between abstraction and figuration. They include hyper-contemporary gadgets such as a home fountain, a tablet or an aroma dispenser combined with ceramics, water colour paintings, papier maché shapes, plastic objects, branches, stones, fossils or wool. J&K regard the sculptures as ‘object-beings’ that bear witness to different layers of time: from the ancient to the contemporary or a not yet lived future. These ‘beings’ can be seen as retrieved from a world of things that are typically considered lifeless. The sculptures are presented alongside the text piece Time Travel Case Log – Soul Retrieval, which is a direct transcription from the artist’s time travel excavation process.