Juan Johnny Alcazaren at Brixton Art Space
Juan Johnny Alcazaren at Brixton Art Space January 11, 2026 Juan Johnny Alcazaren’s new show at Brixton Art Space (reported opening: 10 January 2026) stages a sustained inquiry into material afterlives and quotidian mechanics; this essay reads his current works through the photo documentation you provided, arguing that Alcazaren transforms discarded apparatus into a choreography of memory, labor, and playful rupture. Context and artist positioning Juan Alcazaren’s practice has long worked at the intersection of assemblage, found-object sculpture, and a wry institutional critique that reframes everyday detritus as carriers of social history. Recent exhibition histories and profiles place him within a generation of Philippine artists who rework industrial and domestic refuse into formally rigorous objects and installations. This lineage matters because Alcazaren’s current pieces at Brixton Art Space continue that trajectory while sharpening a conceptual focus on existing things as r...