Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy. Installation view of poster wall. Lagune Ouest, 2023. Photo: The artists & Lagune Ouest.
Press release, December 2023
Please join us on Thursday December 14th from 4-8pm at Lagune Ouest for the Danish premiere of The Strait Trilogy by Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder – a Nordic Noir miniseries about a portal located somewhere between Denmark and Sweden.
What was it with this place that had inspired myriad writers to journey through its darkness and shadows? Was it the landscape and latitude that invited projections beyond the horizon of the imaginable? The uncanny perfection of the “minimalist” design? Or was it perhaps the heart shaped mirror of the welfare state that at an honest glance fell from its thin nail onto the ground – shattering into pieces so sharp no one would walk away without a wound?
Asta Lynge (DK) and Matilda Tjäder (SE) have collaborated on The Strait series since 2020. Recent and forthcoming screenings include: Delfi (Malmö), BIZARRO (Copenhagen), Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival (Copenhagen), Celin (Oslo), Le Bourgeois (London), and Cittipunkt (Berlin).
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (installation view). Lagune Ouest, 2023. Photo: The artists & Lagune Ouest.
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (Still).
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (Still).
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (installation view). Lagune Ouest, 2023. Photo: The artists & Lagune Ouest.
Asta Lynge works associatively across materials and processes. She is interested in the notion of progress and its inherent affiliation with technology. Asta Lynge (DK, 1988) holds a BFA from Central Saints Martins (2012) and was part of the first iteration of the CSM Associate Studio Programme (2013-16). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: John Giorno Foundation (New York); Francis Irv (New York); Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen); Cherry Hill (Cologne); HEART Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning); Fuglsang Kunstmuseum (Fuglsang), Stockholm School of Economics in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm), Le Bourgeois (London), Cittipunkt (Berlin), Cucina (Copenhagen), BIZARRO (Copenhagen) and dépendance (Brussels). Lynge is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize and her work is held in public collections incl. The Danish Art Foundation, Musée d’Elysée (Lausanne, CH) and Copenhagen Municipality.
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (Still).
Matilda Tjäder is an artist building fictional worlds via sound, performance, and moving image. In her work she develops experimental environments where the familiar interfaces with the unknown, the individual with the collective and memories with the absence of sentience. By plugging into existing infrastructures she takes great pleasure in revising their invisible protocols and designs via storytelling, ambient installations and absurd scenarios. She is a resident on independent radio station Retreat Radio with monthly show ”Scaling” and founder of the eponymous sound series taking place across various locations in Malmö. Matilda Tjäder (SE, 1989) holds a MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London (2018). Recent and upcoming exhibitions and performances include: Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), SKF Konstnärshuset (Stockholm), ICA (London), Skånes Konstförening (Malmö), Le Bourgeois (London), BIZARRO (Copenhagen), Norbergfestival (Norberg), Cell Project Space (London), Ashley (Berlin), Damien & The Love Guru (Brussels) , MOCA (Los Angeles) and Country Music presents: Doom Spa (Berlin). Matilda was the recipient of Sven and Ellida Hjorts Minnesfond Award 2022.
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (installation view). Lagune Ouest, 2023. Photo: The artists & Lagune Ouest.
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (Still).
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (Still).
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder, The Strait Trilogy (installation view). Lagune Ouest, 2023. Photo: The artists & Lagune Ouest.
Opening: December 14, from 4-8pm.
Exhibition period: December 14, 2023 - January 13, 2024.
Opening hours: Wed-fri: 11am-3pm. The film screens on the hour.
More info: www.laguneouest.com
Thank you: The Danish Arts Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, and Fondet for Dansk-Svensk Samarbejde.
Credits
Featuring: Jonas Bergen Rahmanzadeh, Mai Brostrøm, Sunjatha Conta, Samuel Hatchwell, Hans Frederik Jacobsen, Asta Lynge, Claus Lynge, Mood, Farhaan Mumtaz, Anna Paterson, Sara Sjölin, Louis Scherfig, Tora Schultz, Emilia Thorin, Matilda Tjäder, Beth von Undall.
Image: Jakob Ohrt.
Script, direction, edit and production: Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder.
Costume: Sanna Helena Berger.
Soundtrack: Fivestarrockstar.