Jasper Marsalis transforms live broadcasts into a meditation on time, technology and the invisible architectures of seeing.
6 July 2026
What does it mean to witness a landscape through a machine? In ‘Still Life’, London-based artist Jasper Marsalis presents his first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom, unfolding at Chisenhale Gallery as an immersive audiovisual installation that interrogates the systems shaping contemporary perception.
Drawing on live public broadcast feeds from unsecured Internet Protocol cameras positioned in remote natural landscapes across the world, Marsalis assembles an ever-changing sequence of moving images that unfold in real time. As shifts in weather, light and atmosphere quietly register across the screen, the work invites viewers to reconsider how technologies of surveillance, broadcasting and digital infrastructure have come to mediate experiences once associated with contemplation and stillness.
Designed to echo the immersive environments of cinemas and sports arenas, ‘Still Life’ examines the spectacle of contemporary image culture while exposing the often invisible systems that produce it. The installation reframes endlessly streaming broadcasts, originally intended for constant circulation, as poetic reflections on duration, absence and the passing of time. Rather than presenting technology as a neutral tool, Marsalis reveals it as an active participant in shaping perception, attention and memory.
Working across moving image, sculpture and installation, Marsalis continues his exploration of liveness, temporality and image production through a commission that quietly challenges the rhythms of a world defined by perpetual transmission. ‘Still Life’ offers a compelling space to pause, observe and reflect on the increasingly mediated conditions through which we encounter both nature and one another.
This exhibition will be on view at Chisenhale Gallery, London, from 10 July until 6 September 2026.
