Jonathan Joosten

Jonathan Joosten

Jonathan Joosten

Jonathan Joosten is a German-Dutch artist based in Berlin. His artistic practice can be read as resistance to chrononormativity, to the linear structuring of time Joosten works with residual or fragmented materials: industrial prototypes, discarded architectural elements, forms that have become obsolete. These are materials that have fallen out of their temporal grid, not yet waste, no longer functional, but caught in a state of limbo. Instead of imposing a logic of progress or completion on these objects, the artist emphasizes incompleteness, delay, and repetition. Joosten’s works suggest an ongoing becoming, a refusal to settle into past or future, memory, or vision. He thus creates a space for a temporal drag a reverberation of the past in the present. Joosten collects the unclaimed, the half-forgotten, the speculatively remaining. We find ourselves in the archive of the not-yet.