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Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De (7) | Alex Jones

£800.00

Alex Jones
Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De (7), 2024
Oil on wood
29 x 25 cm

Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De (7), (3) and (5) are variable editions of paintings by Alex Jones that extend his ongoing investigation into the relationship between language and form. Jones’s practice explores how words can operate beyond communication, using text as a visual and structural device within painting rather than as a direct carrier of meaning.

In this series, Jones turns away from English and works with a foreign language, creating a distance between the artist and the phrase itself. That distance allows the words to be seen as a structure: something visual, spatial, and built.

The title, translated as “I Do Not Care About,” is taken from earlier works in which the phrase was arranged through a triangular motif, its shape determined by the numerical structure of the letters. Here, that logic develops into a new form, with the composition resolved into a striking cross-shaped work. In Jones’s hands, language is not simply read but experienced as material that can be measured and arranged.

These works sit between neutrality and abstraction, where meaning is partially withheld and form takes precedence over communication. The result is a body of work that feel precise, enigmatic, and quietly assertive. Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De invites viewers to consider how words occupy space, and to encounter language not just as a statement, but as structure, rhythm, and form.

Alex Jones
Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De (7), 2024
Oil on wood
29 x 25 cm

Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De (7), (3) and (5) are variable editions of paintings by Alex Jones that extend his ongoing investigation into the relationship between language and form. Jones’s practice explores how words can operate beyond communication, using text as a visual and structural device within painting rather than as a direct carrier of meaning.

In this series, Jones turns away from English and works with a foreign language, creating a distance between the artist and the phrase itself. That distance allows the words to be seen as a structure: something visual, spatial, and built.

The title, translated as “I Do Not Care About,” is taken from earlier works in which the phrase was arranged through a triangular motif, its shape determined by the numerical structure of the letters. Here, that logic develops into a new form, with the composition resolved into a striking cross-shaped work. In Jones’s hands, language is not simply read but experienced as material that can be measured and arranged.

These works sit between neutrality and abstraction, where meaning is partially withheld and form takes precedence over communication. The result is a body of work that feel precise, enigmatic, and quietly assertive. Je Ne Me Soucie Pas De invites viewers to consider how words occupy space, and to encounter language not just as a statement, but as structure, rhythm, and form.

Alex Jones is a British artist based in Brighton, England, whose work explores the relationship between language and form within painting. Drawing on an interest in linguistic systems and visual structure, he creates compositions where words function as material rather than message, often treating text as a spatial and architectural element.

His practice strips language of its communicative role, instead using it to construct images that balance neutrality with abstraction, where meaning becomes secondary to placement, rhythm, and form.