The territory inhabited by artist Jonathan Ellery is fundamentally provocative. In response to the manipulation and unravelling state of contemporary world politics, he has released his latest piece, Populism. The abstract work takes two forms: a sculptural, special edition book, accompanied by a site-specific billboard installation.

Functioning as a deliberately considered token of defiance, the 850-page tome is almost absurd in its execution. Reminiscent in form of a tactile telephone directory, it features 416 numbers, rendered sequentially, and a mere three images: a banality reverberating across the turning of each double-page spread. The monotony is momentarily interrupted by the coarseness of three fully exposed arse holes. The work is a minimalist gesture, transferred through an abstract form, where numbers are employed simply as shapes, whilst simultaneously invoking political truths. —Browns Editions