Babyjelly & Fragmentz

Experimental filmmaker and visual artist Jeff Keen produced films, paintings, drawings, collages, artist’s books, concrete poems, noise art, and performances that helped expand the boundaries of European postwar art. Active in the British counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, Keen drew on diverse cultural and art-historical sources for his eccentric, multimedia practice that embraced the illogical and the absurd. The collage Babyjelly & Fragmentz is rooted in this distinctive approach of generating meaning through juxtapositions of found and created elements, and includes altered and fragmented texts, comic book characters, and images from popular publications and advertising. As in his films, images of violence and destruction suggest a sociopolitical critique of U.S. and British consumerism.