Jakkious Eliot

Creative Statement

Jakkious Eliot (Germany) is an artist who mainly works with photography.
His photos establish a link between reality and the imagination.

By taking daily life as the subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Eliot often creates work using creative tactics. Different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.

His photos are characterized by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of
middle class mentality in which recognition plays an important role.
These works focus on concrete questions that determine our very existence.

Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination. His works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement and his art is part of the collective memory.

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