AVPD, Visibilities / Anika Lori, Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner / The Destruction of Atlantis
01 Oct - 29 Nov 2008
AVPD
Sphere, 2008
1000 m wooden fillets (dimension 1x2 mm), glue
diameter approx. 55 cm
Exhibition: Visibilities, Union Gallery, London, UK
Credits:
Photo © AVPD 2008
Sphere, 2008
1000 m wooden fillets (dimension 1x2 mm), glue
diameter approx. 55 cm
Exhibition: Visibilities, Union Gallery, London, UK
Credits:
Photo © AVPD 2008
Anika Lori
Spot on
mixed media
Credits: Courtesy of the artist
Spot on
mixed media
Credits: Courtesy of the artist
Image credits: Courtesy of Jakob Boeskov
AVPD
Visibilities
Stalker
The main work Stalker is a new installation which unfolds as a segregated sequence of four connected corridors. Inside the installation four huge mirrors are positioned in angles creating an endless 360o reflection in each of the four mirrors. The reflections in the four mirrors conflicts with the reflections of a single mirror. Instead of observing one’s mirror image the subject perceive oneself from behind as he/she is a another person, standing behind oneself. The subject observe oneself as another subject.
In other words the subject is forced into the role of being the one’s own stalker. Apart from being one’s own observer the mirror reflections forces the subject to observe all other present subjects in the installation and simultaneously being observed by them. The installation becomes a performative space.
Because of the segregation of the corridor system and the uniform aesthetics the mirrors become the
only differentiation by which the subject can navigate. The 360 degrees reflection creates an endless repetion of the four corridors. This condition triggers the perception of the subject in such a way that he/she cannot point out where other present subjects in the installation are positioned, which again intensify the perceptive experience of observing and being observed.
ANIKA LORI
Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner
It is a very fine line that successful Danish collage artist Anika Lori is dancing away on. Only small strokes of paint, plaster or glue can turn ugliness into aesthetic and mundane material into new insights and connotations – and vice versa.
This fine line dualism is the universe of Lori’s expressive work that already has brought her to attention in galleries in Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Paris. In Lori’s collage works, the grotesque collides with gratifying beauty. Drawing equally on pop art and surrealism as well as pin ups and circus posters Lori creates a universe that appeals and provokes simultaneously.
THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
curated by Jesper Elg
The Destruction of Atlantis revolves around the Atlantis myth, interpreted from the perspective, that we are gradually fulfilling, what many thought to be a bizarre myth. Humanity’s advanced civilization is gradually sinking as our world becomes more evolved and developed.
There are many themes attached to the figment of Atlantis, as writers, philosophers and artists have looked at the myth in very different ways through the last 2500 years: the destruction of an advanced civilization, natural disasters, man made disasters, utopia, hubris and nationalism (the Nazis believed it might be the home of an ideal race, others believed Atlantis was home of the Hyperboreans a race of Nordic supermen).
The Destruction of Atlantis is one of three exhibitions that will open September 30th . The two others will be a large installation by Danish Artist collective AVPD and a solo presentation of Danish artist Anika Lori.
Invited artist for The Destruction of Atlantis are: Richard Colman (US), Steve Powers (US), Matthew Stone (UK), Troels Carlsen (DK), Andrew Shoultz (US), Jakob Boeskov (DK), Todd James (US), Wes Lang (US), Kasper Sonne (DK), Peter Funch (DK), Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (DK), Alex Lukas (US), Ulrik Crone (DK), HuskMitNavn (DK), Michelle Blade (US) and Julian Röder (DE).
PV 30/09/08 6-9 pm
VENUE: Union
57 Ewer Street
London
SE1 0NR
Visibilities
Stalker
The main work Stalker is a new installation which unfolds as a segregated sequence of four connected corridors. Inside the installation four huge mirrors are positioned in angles creating an endless 360o reflection in each of the four mirrors. The reflections in the four mirrors conflicts with the reflections of a single mirror. Instead of observing one’s mirror image the subject perceive oneself from behind as he/she is a another person, standing behind oneself. The subject observe oneself as another subject.
In other words the subject is forced into the role of being the one’s own stalker. Apart from being one’s own observer the mirror reflections forces the subject to observe all other present subjects in the installation and simultaneously being observed by them. The installation becomes a performative space.
Because of the segregation of the corridor system and the uniform aesthetics the mirrors become the
only differentiation by which the subject can navigate. The 360 degrees reflection creates an endless repetion of the four corridors. This condition triggers the perception of the subject in such a way that he/she cannot point out where other present subjects in the installation are positioned, which again intensify the perceptive experience of observing and being observed.
ANIKA LORI
Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner
It is a very fine line that successful Danish collage artist Anika Lori is dancing away on. Only small strokes of paint, plaster or glue can turn ugliness into aesthetic and mundane material into new insights and connotations – and vice versa.
This fine line dualism is the universe of Lori’s expressive work that already has brought her to attention in galleries in Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Paris. In Lori’s collage works, the grotesque collides with gratifying beauty. Drawing equally on pop art and surrealism as well as pin ups and circus posters Lori creates a universe that appeals and provokes simultaneously.
THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
curated by Jesper Elg
The Destruction of Atlantis revolves around the Atlantis myth, interpreted from the perspective, that we are gradually fulfilling, what many thought to be a bizarre myth. Humanity’s advanced civilization is gradually sinking as our world becomes more evolved and developed.
There are many themes attached to the figment of Atlantis, as writers, philosophers and artists have looked at the myth in very different ways through the last 2500 years: the destruction of an advanced civilization, natural disasters, man made disasters, utopia, hubris and nationalism (the Nazis believed it might be the home of an ideal race, others believed Atlantis was home of the Hyperboreans a race of Nordic supermen).
The Destruction of Atlantis is one of three exhibitions that will open September 30th . The two others will be a large installation by Danish Artist collective AVPD and a solo presentation of Danish artist Anika Lori.
Invited artist for The Destruction of Atlantis are: Richard Colman (US), Steve Powers (US), Matthew Stone (UK), Troels Carlsen (DK), Andrew Shoultz (US), Jakob Boeskov (DK), Todd James (US), Wes Lang (US), Kasper Sonne (DK), Peter Funch (DK), Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (DK), Alex Lukas (US), Ulrik Crone (DK), HuskMitNavn (DK), Michelle Blade (US) and Julian Röder (DE).
PV 30/09/08 6-9 pm
VENUE: Union
57 Ewer Street
London
SE1 0NR