Sofia Hultén
09 Sep - 29 Oct 2011
SOFIA HULTÉN
No No NoNo No No
September 9 - October 29, 2011
Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to present, on the occasion of Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries, works by the Swedish Berlin based artist Sofia Hultén.
Reconstruction, renovation and transformation are recurring processes in Sofia Hultén’s work. The act of making, the materiality of the objects she chooses to work with and their relationship to time are key to an understanding of her sculptures, videos and photographs.
For this exhibition Sofia Hultén aquired the entire contents of a private car workshop clearance to use as the starting point for her work. The Eurodance hit „No No NoNo No No / No Limit“ provides not only the title to the exhibition but also to a sculpture – a column built out of car jacks, which appears to put pressure between the floor and ceiling of the gallery space. The 2-channel video „Immovable Object/Unstoppable Force“ show attempts by the artist to make a steamroller move, following found instructions for telekinesis on large objects.
The inventory of the car workshop is hidden behind a wall constructed on one side of the gallery space. Four monitors on the opposite side of the space show each object being briefly activated; records, lamps, motors and radios are each switched on for a short time. As in the structure of the Plato's Cave allegory, Hultén’s video work „Nu Cave“ presents the 'shadows' of the hidden objects through their medial transformation.
„Versions of Events“ shows several socks, sneakers, paint marks, thumbtacks and plastic bags in varying causal relationships to one another. Different constellations arise in a similar way as in the installation of re-arranged metal grilles in the gallery's first floor space, which seem to suggest a temporal as well as a physical transformation.
The single-channel video work ‚Investigation Reconstruction’ shows the artist’s re-enactment of FBI training films from the 1960's and 1970's which focus on the analysis of trace evidence – a reconstruction of a reconstruction.
Sofia Hultén was born in 1972 in Sweden and lives and works in Berlin. Her works were shown in: Pressure Drop, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich (2011); Past Particles Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2010); Ninety-Nine Problems Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (2010), Pop-Up!, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Back to Back, Konrad Fischer Oben, Berlin (2009); Drawn Onward, IKON Gallery Offsite, Perrot’s Folly, Birmingham, UK (2009); Mutual Annihilation, Künstlerhaus Bremen, (2008); Familiars, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2007) sowie You Do Voodoo You Do, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2007)
No No NoNo No No
September 9 - October 29, 2011
Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to present, on the occasion of Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries, works by the Swedish Berlin based artist Sofia Hultén.
Reconstruction, renovation and transformation are recurring processes in Sofia Hultén’s work. The act of making, the materiality of the objects she chooses to work with and their relationship to time are key to an understanding of her sculptures, videos and photographs.
For this exhibition Sofia Hultén aquired the entire contents of a private car workshop clearance to use as the starting point for her work. The Eurodance hit „No No NoNo No No / No Limit“ provides not only the title to the exhibition but also to a sculpture – a column built out of car jacks, which appears to put pressure between the floor and ceiling of the gallery space. The 2-channel video „Immovable Object/Unstoppable Force“ show attempts by the artist to make a steamroller move, following found instructions for telekinesis on large objects.
The inventory of the car workshop is hidden behind a wall constructed on one side of the gallery space. Four monitors on the opposite side of the space show each object being briefly activated; records, lamps, motors and radios are each switched on for a short time. As in the structure of the Plato's Cave allegory, Hultén’s video work „Nu Cave“ presents the 'shadows' of the hidden objects through their medial transformation.
„Versions of Events“ shows several socks, sneakers, paint marks, thumbtacks and plastic bags in varying causal relationships to one another. Different constellations arise in a similar way as in the installation of re-arranged metal grilles in the gallery's first floor space, which seem to suggest a temporal as well as a physical transformation.
The single-channel video work ‚Investigation Reconstruction’ shows the artist’s re-enactment of FBI training films from the 1960's and 1970's which focus on the analysis of trace evidence – a reconstruction of a reconstruction.
Sofia Hultén was born in 1972 in Sweden and lives and works in Berlin. Her works were shown in: Pressure Drop, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich (2011); Past Particles Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2010); Ninety-Nine Problems Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (2010), Pop-Up!, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Back to Back, Konrad Fischer Oben, Berlin (2009); Drawn Onward, IKON Gallery Offsite, Perrot’s Folly, Birmingham, UK (2009); Mutual Annihilation, Künstlerhaus Bremen, (2008); Familiars, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2007) sowie You Do Voodoo You Do, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2007)