Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Pressemeddelelse, maj 2022
fra jeg var 9 til jeg var 13 fik jeg bank hver dag. Af 3 drenge fra min klasse. Var sådan et mærkeligt stockholm-agtigt syndrom, at jeg blev den der skulle løbe, til de fangede mig, sparkede, slog, sad på mine arme og ydmygede mig, og hvad end de havde lyst til. I kan måske forestille jer, år. Beskyttet af samfundet i Ebeltoft. - Udstillingen starter fra min lyst til en Beskytter, et omnipotent og fair våben, for alles og min sikkerhed, imod dem. Jeg ved godt den type af overlord er misforstået og forkert. Det kan jo ikke gå godt med quantum AI med miniguns, rocket launchers og railguns i flæng. Men jeg ville ønske. Reflekteret desværre. Derfor her: Systemer til personligt selvforsvar, – i en dagligdag.
Skete ikke i et vacuum, to grupper så til, på væggen mine stiltiende klassekammerater, igennem arbejdet med udstillingen har jeg indset at de havde deres egne problemer, nok, som barn så jeg dem som højlydte og tavse. I dag kan jeg se dem klarere ...Det er ikke noget man fortæller, der er ingen der har vidst det om mig, imens jeg har fortalt “hvor jeg er fra”... senere har jeg været en overlever, sådan én, der har efterladt det bag mig. Det har aldrig eksisteret. Men den gnaver, en lyst til weaponized tryghed imod ondskab.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel V, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA with nylon, aluminium and steel. 110 x 46 x 42 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel V, 2022 (detail). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel V, 2022 (detail). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel V, 2022 (detail). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Kan ikke lide at pisse ved siden af andre mænd, hader deres ritual af at stå ved hækken og stønne “aaah”, sover ikke i offentlig transport, altid vågen, falder sidst i søvn, hver nat. Listen af småting er langt væk fra et normalt liv. Stopper aldrig. - Den anden (mindre, og fuck dem) gruppe er lærerne, mobberne havde magtfulde forældre i lokalsamfundet, og vi var laveste klasse, tilflyttere. Lærerne lod stå til, fordi de selv var for skrøbelige og sårbare. Piberygende voksne.
De tænker ikke på mig et øjeblik, for mig er de tatoveret på indersiden af mit væsen med med jern og svovl. Jeg transformerer dem her. Ofrer dem i techno-blod til de makker ret. Afguder med våben. Sticks and stones. Jeg har slet ikke lyst til at snakke om det her, men jeg ønsker at vise jer skulptur. Billeder på ønsker. På at overleve. – Tekst af Ivan Pérard.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel I, 2022. Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel I, 2022 (detail). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Bully Angel I, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA with nylon, aluminium and steel. 110 x 42 x 60 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard (1984, DK) har studeret på Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien fra 2011-2021. Han har tidligere vist værker på MAK Vienna Biennale (Wien), Ungefaehr5 (Köln), Loggia (München) og Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (København).
Fernisering: 24. juni, kl. 17-20.
Udstillingsperiode: 24. juni - 1. juli samt 3.-13. august, 2022.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
English version:
from i was 9 to when i was 13 I got beaten up every day. By 3 boys from my class. It developed into a weird kinda-like stockholm syndrome, that I became the one who had to run, until they caught me, kicked, beat, sat on my arms and humiliated me, whatever they wanted. You can probably imagine, years. Protected by society in Ebeltoft. – This exhibition starts from my desire for a Protector, an omnipotent and fair weapon, for mine and everyone's safety, against them. I know cultivating that type of overlord is misunderstood and wrong. We can’t have that good of a time with Quantum AI carrying miniguns, rocket launchers and railguns in daily life. But I wish. Unfortunately it’s a reflected wish. Therefore here: Self-defense systems for domestic spaces.
Nothing happened in a vacuum, two groups were onlookers, on the wall my silent classmates. Through working with this exhibition I have come to realize that they had their own problems, probably, as a child I saw them as loud and quiet. Today I see them clearer. ...It’s not a story you tell, nobody has known this side of me, when i’ve been telling the “where I’m from”-part... Later I’ve been a survivor, the type that has left it behind. It never happened. But it nags, the desire for weaponized safety against evil.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Kasper, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA. 32 x 32 x 11,5 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Julian, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA. 32 x 32 x 11 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Marianne, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA. 32 x 32 x 11 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Don’t like peeing next to other men, hate their ritual of standing in the bushes going “ahhh”, can’t sleep in public transport, always awake, last to sleep, every night. It's a long list of small things that keeps me far removed from normal life. Never ends. – The other (smaller and fuck them) group is the teachers, my bullies had powerful parents in the local society, and we were the lowest class, newcomers. The teachers stood by because of their own fragility. Pipe smoking adults.
They never think of me for one second, for me they’re tattooed on the inside of my being with iron and sulfur. I transform them here. Sacrifice them in techno-blood until they behave. Weaponized idols. Stick and stones. I never wanted to talk about this, but I want to show you in sculpture. Images of wishes. Images of surviving. – Text by Ivan Pérard.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Annemiek, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA. 30 x 32 x 13 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Magnus, 2022 (Inks, acrylics and lacquer on PLA. 32 x 32 x 11 cm). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard, Impossibility of Peace in the Brain of the Bullied (Installation view). Photo: The artist & Lagune Ouest.
Ivan Pérard (1984, DK) studied from 2011-2021 at Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien. He has recently been showing works at MAK Vienna Biennale (Vienna), Ungefaehr5 (Cologne), Loggia (Münich) and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen).
Opening: June 24, 5-8 pm.
Exhibition period: June 24 - July 1 and August 3-13, 2022.