www.jaseking.eu

Statement

I create abstract works on canvas and in sculpture that translate esoteric ideas, memory, and lived experience into physical form. Using mixed media, sound frequencies, and self-developed techniques, my practice is driven as much by experimentation as by the finished artwork itself. The process of discovery is often as important to me as the final piece.

Rather than following a conventional path of developing and repeating a single signature style, I approach each body of work as a new study. My background in performing arts has profoundly shaped this perspective. Like an actor inhabiting different roles, I allow each project to determine its own visual language, materials, colours, and methods while retaining my consistent underlying essence.

I am interested in creating work that carries a distinct imprint of its origin. Work that is immediately recognisable as part of my practice, not because it looks the same, but because it embodies the same spirit of inquiry, transformation and exploration. Each series becomes a record of a particular investigation, evolving alongside my own life and understanding of the world.

Bio

Jase King works at the intersection of sculpture, crystallography, performance, and sound, creating works that explore identity as a process of deconstruction and transformation. Whether through masks, canvases, or installations, each piece functions as a ritual object, charged with meaning that reaches beyond aesthetics.

His masks are created intuitively, they give form to what cannot be spoken, making the invisible visible. Worn in performances or presented in stillness, they invite psychological confrontation and reflection. King believes these works should live a full life before entering private collections. His masks have been worn by refugees, dancers, models, and fellow artists, accumulating stories that mirror his own journey through the many places and communities he has inhabited.

On canvas, King employs a self-developed process of growing crystals through sound frequencies, merging geological time with sonic resonance. This alchemical practice transforms surfaces into living terrains where energy becomes mineral and vibration takes physical form. Part nature and part esoteric science, the work is rooted in the belief that materials respond to intention. Drawing on Hermetic philosophy, symbolic transmutation, and the unseen forces of nature, his practice asks for participation, curiosity, and surrender to the unknown.

King has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Museum of Applied Art and Design in Berlin, the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade, Petite Palais Paris and Art Miami. His ongoing exhibitions across Paris and beyond occupy a space between contemporary art, fashion, sculpture, and mysticism. Through collaborations with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), part of the United Nations, he has created works alongside refugees travelling the Balkan route, transforming narratives of displacement into expressions of dignity and form.

Discarding trends, borders, and binaries, King's work inhabits a liminal territory between intention and mutation. Whether crystallising sound or transforming the self through mask-making, he operates as an artist of transmission, one who does not simply document reality, but alters its frequency.

King is currently developing a 24-piece series titled Mothers Are for Other Boys, chronicling his life from ages one to twenty-four and his journey of self-discovery before meeting his biological mother for the first time.