Structures for Jet Lag

Curators

Art Haxhijakupi

The Koppel Project

Artists

Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde

PAUSE/FRAME 194 The Broadway SW19 1RY

In his first solo exhibition in London, Venezuelan American artist Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde presents a multidisciplinary body of work spanning sculpture, drawing, collage, and film. Taking place at PAUSE/FRAME, The Koppel Project's Wimbledon gallery, the exhibition explores the complexities of migration, the fluidity of memory, the concept of borders, and the search for belonging.

Structures for Jet Lag unravels the migrant body as a fractured geography, where belonging is perpetually deferred and borders dissolve into sites of rupture. The artist interrogates displacement not as loss but as a radical reimagining of identity, threading queerness through the liminal spaces between memory and myth. Drawing on José Esteban Muñoz’s vision of futurity and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology, the exhibition rejects nostalgia for a homeland, instead framing “home” as an open question, a body suspended between geographies.

The works pulse with a queer temporality, refusing binaries of arrival or departure. They stay in the dissonance of dislocation, where desire cracks open fixed narratives and biopolitical scrutiny is met with rebellious vulnerability.

Structures for Jet Lag finds beauty in fragmentation, proposing that cracks are not wounds but apertures, spaces where new architectures of belonging might emerge, ungovernable and alive.

Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde (b.1984, Caracas) is a Venezuelan American visual artist living and working in London, UK.Exploring themes of identity and place, he contests notions of cultural belonging through an expanded video, drawing and installation practice. His research has led him to create performative walks along contested borders, embody nonsensical choreographies amidst war bunkers as well as diaristic pieces which speak to the queer experience. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally in venues including: The Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, NY), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, DE), LUX (London, UK), Hua International Gallery (Berlin, DE), Iklectic (London, UK), PS120 (Berlin, DE), Momenta Art (Brooklyn, NY), Art Exchange (Colchester, UK), The Centro Cultural Chacao (Caracas, VE), and POLIN (Warsaw, PL).

He has received travel grants from Asylum Arts and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; the latter, to study Nicholas Grimshaw's "Eden Project" in Cornwall, UK. He was selected to participate in the 38th cycle of the Artist in the Marketplace program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, in the fall of 2018.

He has participated in various residencies including the Watermill Center (Watermill, NY), The Wassaic Artists' Residency (Wassaic, NY), Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística (Lisbon, PT) and ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin, DE). His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Artnet, Art Observed, Architizer, El Nacional and ArteFuse.

Daniel holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and degrees in Architecture from Yale University and Pratt Institute. Daniel is currently associate lecturer in the MA Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.