REASON OF ABSCENCE, 2008
Theme for the show at Deiglan gallerie in akureyri, Iceland is the mysticism in the everyday object. Foods, Dishes, furniture are things, which surround us. They are marked by our everyday activities. Everyday habits are almost unconsciously done, but when they are turn into rituals a different time perception takes place. What when those objects of the everyday manner start to have there own live? Is it the human neurosis or a healthy belief in mystical things? Is there a distinction between the belief in mystics, high-tech technology andFunctionalism?
Anna Mields recent work deals with association themes of still life tradition and fetishism. She works with fragmentary moments of the everyday and investigates moments when controlled or constrained actions occur to those casted objects. Often presented or displayed on structures suggesting containment the casts functions as strange decoration or obtains a function as character.
Within the videos everyday food products occur alienated from its usual appearance and there specific movement is created through a performative act. Within those situations the former disregarded object gains meaning signifying and dealing with different conditions of the human body.
The performance artist Linda Franke works in an unusually sensual way and constructs a narrative, which reveals her affinity to surrealist paintings and a fantastically bizarre world of film images. Complex room installations involving costumes and mask are basic equipment in her performances, which generally happen only once and suggest performance as an ephemeral experience. The aspect of visuality that shows in emphasizing material qualities such as silicon, rubber, foam, wax, fabric, wood and food and is combined with sound elements from different music genres ranging from jazz to opera.
A certain motionlessness of the scenes suggests to draw comparison to a „Tableau Vivants“ a living picture.