Frederikke Jul Vedelsby ‘Zynthia (Toti and Dvergasteinn)’, 16 mm film transferred to video, 02:11 min, 2022 [video still].
Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen.
Press Release, May 2022
Matteo Cantarella is pleased to inaugurate with an upcoming solo by Danish artist Frederikke Jul Vedelsby. For her first exhibition at the gallery, Vedelsby will present a significant new installation comprising works from her recent residency at LungA in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
Working across drawing, 16mm film and writing, the work of Frederikke Jul Vedelsby examines access to alternative states of consciousness and constructs a visual vocabulary that investigates ways of feeling and seeing. In approaching materials as something irregular and undetermined, Vedelsby’s standpoint allows for the unpremeditated to emerge. She often recurs to film as a vehicle to trace the unpredictable interactions that occur between people and objects – in turn, the dialogues and emotional exchanges arising from these encounters feed the artist with an urgency to create spaces for contact and connections. In her ongoing series of drawings, Vedelsby embodies feelings, people and impulses in a rhythmic state of creation. She refers to her drawings as complex organisms which resist the urge of analysis and are assembled by the artist through various forms of movements and repetitions. It is in their irregularities that Vedelsby traces the imprints and the slippages of the forgotten, of the somatic and the verbal, of the conscious and the unconscious.
Frederikke Jul Vedelsby (b. 1990, Denmark) lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal and Malmö, Sweden. Vedelsby graduated with an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2020), studied at the Maumaus Independent Study Programme, Portugal (2021), and specialized in critical writing at Biskops Arnö, Sweden (2022). Vedelsby has been exhibited at Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Kørsor, Denmark), Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen, Denmark), Heima (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland) and at The Beat Museum (San Francisco, US) among others.
Opening: Friday 20 May, 17-20.
Exhibition Period: 20 May - 2 July, 2022
Opening hours: Sat 21 May: 11-15, Sun 22 May: 11-15, and by appointment.
More info: www.matteocantarella.net