Drunken Butterflies (Installation view). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Press release, October 2022
DRUNKEN BUTTERFLIES
– Curated by Jon Stahn
Rikke Benborg, Daniel Mølholt Bülow, Suzette Gemzøe, Mette Rasmussen
Up from acrid caverns underground, we fy with fever, drunk from the night. Yearning for a life that does not die like anything. Drunken butterfies, vulnerably receptive for love and death. There is something delicately sorrowful at stake here. When summer sinks like butter and birds become fies. Moving between layers of fermented pixels, epoxy, mirror foil and etchings transforming, forever becoming and coinciding with our own eggs. What have we gathered here at dusk?
Rikke Benborg (Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2006)
In the video FEBER (Fever) Rikke Benborg circulates around “dreams” as an aesthetic and existential gap, where several layers and stories intertwine with each other. In dreams lives the circular nightmare, where Sisyphean repetitions mirrors fear and inadequacy, where claustrophobic madness squeezes us together and leads us astray from the goal. But it is also here, in the uncontrollable and absurd fever images of dreams, that we find the sweetness of longing and its transformative potential. Because maybe is it a possibility for us to come to terms with our dreams, our anxiety, our nightmares?
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow, As the heel slipped, 2022 (Wood, epoxy, glazed ceramics, rhinestones, nail polish and glue). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Daniel Mølholt Bülow (Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2020)
Supporters carefully myth-made into an inanimate collective body. Stilted dreams in wood, epoxy, ceramics for the high-heeled devour. Beckoning, yet not spellbinding. Accessories for an utopia out of sight.
Drunken Butterflies (Installation view). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Suzette Gemzøe, Untitled, 2022 (Oil on canvas). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Suzette Gemzøe, Mørk energi, 2022 (Oil on canvas, mounted on acrylic sheet). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Suzette Gemzøe, Mørk energi, 2022 (Oil on canvas, mounted on acrylic sheet). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Drunken Butterflies (Installation view). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Suzette Gemzøe (Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1998)
In these abstract compositions, Suzette Gemsøe is working with painting as energetic expression of the soul's desire – based on the principle of Eros; to bring into the world, to give birth or to die in beauty, in ecstasy. A visual creation as an expression of a super-personal collectivity, as a melody of colored light. A visual creation underpinned by the collective evolutionary urge and vision for eternity and immortality. A door out of modality, to wanderings through dark matter, a search through body, mind and spirit for faith in the sunrise. The beeswax finger painting is a direct bodily release from, and off, plutocratic monotony.
Drunken Butterflies (Installation view). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Mette Rasmussen, Barselskjole, 2021 (Petticoat, etching). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Mette Rasmussen, En bakketrold, 2021 (Etching, embroidery). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Mette Rasmussen, Navnet på mit hus, 2020 (Carved elm wood, enamel paint, ship's lacquer). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Mette Rasmussen, Behalet kvinde, 2021 (Etching, embroidery). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Drunken Butterflies (Installation view). Marie Kirkegaard Gallery.
Mette Rasmussen (Graduated from Funen Art Academy in 2020)
Mette Rasmussen is showing etchings mounted on embroidery and clothing as well as a relief in wood. Works that whirls around the erotic, lustful, demonic, and which create flickering images in the eerily domestic. Fragmented fantasies about creatures from nordic folklore interwoven with the reason-based times we live in. There is a clear and contagious longing, that maybe the pagan and subjugated past is not gone. A dream, that trolls are living in the ventilation pipes at the workplace, or that you are most likely being secretly watched in a crevasse valley in the “Paradisbakkerne” on Bornholm. It just may be, that a retrospective approach can create a resonance between the unconscious life that is lived in the hills, and the conscious life that is lived in our everyday life.
Text by Daniel Mølholt Bülow.
Opening: Friday the 7th of October, 5-7 pm.
Exhibition period: 7 October - 5 November, 2022.
Opening hours: Tuesday-friday: 12-6pm, saturday: 12-3pm.
More info: www.mariekirkegaard.com