It is this glitchy uncomfort/comfort of recognition or lack of, the flit between the abstract and familiar that is omnipresent in both Jack Warne’s music (as GAUNT) and art making, aduality that is the focus of his debut UK solo show which opens on 7th September in London Fields. “Filters are fundamental to our experience of perception and the world. Whether that is through our own eyes and ears or via a broken computer programme, these systems form our view, I am interested in the moments when these systems malfunction,” explains Warne.

He is interested in the lens of childhood nostalgia (much of the imagery for the works are initially derived from analogue images of Warne’s familial past, home videos, shot by his late father). He then adds an additional filter, one with the newer languages of technology to help further disrupt our neural pathways. “Tearing images apart and putting them back together, how far can you reduce the signal and still tell what it is?” As well as exploiting technology he hacks it, enjoying its faultlines, underlining moments of imperfection that happen with malfunctions. In playing with the interspatial things that are not supposed to be perceived, Warne’s work makes us question the threshold of our own perception.

For each of the new artworks, Warne has specially devised instagram filters to produce an additional moving — Augmented Reality iteration of the work, often with an audio score attached using moments from his debut album. Warne likes to bring his music into the context of experiencing his works in a gallery, “an additional signal to allow the participant to connect with the artwork in the more visceral and primal way that music often allows for. Even in the mundane our lives have soundtracks, rhythms constantly overlapping on the bus or as we walk, associations come to us.” In collaboration with Diabolical, a series of Warne’s artworks will replace advertising on billboards, visually and audibly bleeding into our public space as we traverse our every day. The work’s AR element allows street walkers a more playful discovery and encounter with our shared urban landscapes. Advertising slogans will be replaced with Image Descriptions to enable people to experience the works via language.