London Biennale

Jack Xerxes Jordan

New World Disorder

New World Disorder by Jack Xerxes Jordan, Gouache on canvasboard, 2025

Selected for the 2025 London Art Biennale, United Kingdom. Gouache on canvasboard, 2025. 60x60cm.

New World Disorder emerges organically through instinctive layering of gouache, painted directly without preliminary sketches. The abstract composition evokes fragmented urban landscapes, digital glyphs, and disrupted communication signals, reflecting the unstable, overloaded networks of contemporary life. Forms and structures surface spontaneously, capturing the uncertainty and flux of modern existence.

My paintings are intuitive explorations, using layered gouache to externalize subconscious rhythms and tensions onto canvas. Approaching painting as a visual psychoanalysis, I map internal experiences, emotional resonances, and psychological landscapes — revealing rather than depicting.