I am very happy to be able to invite you to my upcoming solo exhibition;
Nocturne On A Drainpipe Flute.
10th of December - 15th of January.
Opening December 10th. 17.00 – 22.00
WAS - Wonderland Art Space
Absalonsgade 21b 1658 Copenhagen V
Denmark
http://www.wonderlandartspace.dk/
+45 3322 3343
+ 45 2819 7911
Nocturne On A Drainpipe Flute is a visual confrontation between something that was, and something there is. It is temporary storage of information – an archive and a theatrical spectacle, staged by means of drawn images and projection technology.
Nocturne On A Drainpipe Flute is a hodgepodge of dialectic images and fragments, magic tricks, trauma, stolen impressions and staged spectacle. This massive collage of immaterial images, driven by Dia-slide projectors running in the loop, is based on the pre-cinematic projection show Robertson's Phantasmagoria, which originated in Paris in the 1790ties. The Phantasmagoria was a form of popular entertainment that, originating in a new era of enlightenment, placed itself in the borderland between science and popular superstitions. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, Robertson's Phantasmagoria became a metaphor for the dialectic between truth and illusion, subjectivity and objectivity and the idea of false consciousness.
Nocturne On A Drainpipe Flute transforms the gallery into a temporary theatrical spectacle - to a stage where the projectors and the drawn images are both set-piece, and actors in the drama that is unfolding. Through the projections in space the audience becomes active players in the construction and de-construction of this stage.
Through the immaterial- material of projection, the throwing of light and shadow, the exhibition examines the undefined space between the here-and-now present and the mediated - between authenticity and construction, and between original and reproduction. The visual material of the exhibition is an assembly of more than 200 individual drawings, which are based on concrete observations from both the urban landscape of various media archives. They portray spaces of human interaction and action. This medley of figures serve as a critical analysis of the city's concrete and abstract structures, its aspects of cohesion and fragmentation. They chronicle together a fragmented panorama, a dramatic staging of the contemporary, seen as utopia and tragedy.
Part of the visual material from the exhibition, will for its duration, be used in a series of mobile interventions which will take place in Copenhagen's urban spaces.
