Having never met the LAI’s senior curator prior to exhibiting, artist Jessie proposed a radical thing. For the duration of the exhibition, legal wills have been officially amended to authorise the artist as guardian to the youngest child of the senior curator.

Jessie’s socially responsive practice challenges social norms and questions the hierarchies that are at play in everyday situations. Succinctly titled The Guardian, her current work subtly intervenes in the modern family, blurring the boundary between family/work structures and responsibilities. The artist turns the curator’s ‘caretaker’ role on its head and asks us to consider the value of artists’ work and the role of the institution in supporting them.