Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw has long been interested in cinematic trips, most often of the psychedelic variety. Across a number of film and video shorts, installations, performances, and photo works, as well as a notable parallel career as a musician, Shaw has repeatedly returned to questions of altered states and euphoria, whether chemically induced or otherwise. Born in North Vancouver, Shaw has lived and worked for the past decade in Berlin, and recently completed the final instalment of his since-dubbed Quantification Trilogy, three films that stand as the artist’s most ambitious and conceptual body of work to date. The Quantification Trilogy brings together several overarching concerns that have emerged throughout Shaw’s career, most notably an interest in science, faith, documentary, dance, and euphoria.
Dynamic, enigmatic, complex, and beautiful, Shaw’s works…