Sian Kristoffersen, Installation view. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Pressemeddelelse, august 2018
Organon er glade for at kunne præsentere Trick Mirror, en soloudstilling af Sian Kristoffersen. Trick Mirror er en udstilling der balancerer mellem det psykotiske og det delikat sublime.
For den franske psykoanalytiker Jacques Lacan spillede spejlet en afgørende rolle i konstitueringen af subjektet: barnet ser ind i spejlet og genkender sig selv som et billede - oplevelsen af selvet som en ydre genstand giver anledning til en ny løsrevet selvfølelse. Men her peger udstillingens titel også på spejlets upålidelighed og evne til at bedrage. Til trods for det er bedraget ikke entydigt skidt. Som man ved fra behandling af fantomsmerter ved hjælp af spejlterapi (en behandlingsform hvori en rask arm spejles, så den skaber illusionen om at en amputeret arm placeret bag spejlet er velfungerende), kan tricket have forskellige konsekvenser. Som i et kammerspil optegner Trick Mirror et rum med intens psykologisk spænding. Forklædt i bløde pasteller formulerer Kristoffersens afrundede, udstrakte og deforme skulpturer psykens tilspidsede potentialer, som reflekteres i og af beskueren. I denne udstilling præsenterer Kristoffersen en scenografi for en sprængt entitet, som smelter ind i et symbiotisk dyb med kæledyrsagtige væsner, møbler og fordøjelsesprocesser.
Sian Kristoffersen, Installation view. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen er uddannet fra The Glasgow School of Art og Det Kgl. Kunstakademi i Københavnen og har en lang række udstillinger i Danmark og udlandet bag sig. Hun har blandt andet udstillet på Tranen, SixtyEight Art Institute, Viborg Kunsthal, KH7artspace og senest på Søby Skulptur Biennale. Kristoffersens arbejde med skulptur, video, installation og foto tager ofte udgangspunkt i iscenesættelser af narrativer inspireret af mytologi, film og litteratur.
Fernisering: d. 14. september, kl. 18-21.
Åbent i udstillingen:
Søndag d. 16. september, kl. 15-18.
Torsdag d. 20. september, kl. 17-20.
Søndag d. 23. september, kl. 12-17.
Torsdag d. 27. september, kl. 17-20.
Sian Kristoffersen, Installation view. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Harmolypi, marble, glass. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Red Hard Hat, unglazed clay. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Sister, jesmonite, pigment. Foto: A. Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Glass Heart, porcelain, steel wire. Foto: A. Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Chrysalis (Pink Channel). Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Nosexnosleepflix, jesmonite. Foto: A. Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, New bones, jesmonite, pigment. Foto: A. Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Installation view. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Slip - print on silk. Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
Sian Kristoffersen, Slip - print on silk (detail). Foto: Adrian Delafontaine.
ENGLISH:
Organon is happy to present Trick Mirror, a solo exhibition by Sian Kristoffersen. Trick Mirror is an exhibition that balances between the psychotic and delicate eeriness.
For the French psychoanalytic Jacques Lacan the mirror played an essential role in the constitution of subjectivity: the child gazes into the mirror and recognizes itself as an image - the experience of oneself as an outside rendered object gives rise to a new detached sense of self. The title of the exhibition suggests that the mirror referred to here goes beyond representation and stresses a more unreliable position. But the deceit of the mirror is not unequivocal, but rather as we have learned from the treatment of phantom pains by mirror therapy (the placing of a mirror in front of an amputated arm which creates the illusion of functionality from mirroring the movements of the other healthy arm); the trick can have different repercussions. Much like in a chamber play Trick Mirror draws up a room of intense psychological suspense. Disguised in soft pastels, rounded, elongated and deformed shapes Kristoffersen’s sculptures formulate the high-strung potentials of the psyche bouncing back at the viewer. In this exhibition Kristoffersen presents a scenography for a scattered entity that melts into a symbiotic hiatus with pet-like creatures, furniture and digestion processes.
Sian Kristoffersen graduated from The Glasgow School of Art and The Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. She has participated in a wide range of exhibitions in Denmark and abroad and among other places exhibited at Tranen, SixtyEight Art Institute, Viborg Kunsthal, KH7artspace and Søby Sculpture Biennale. Sian's work, which primarily centers around sculpture, video, installation and photo, is often based on staging of narratives inspired by mythology, film and literature.
Opening: 14th of September, 6pm-9pm.
Exhibition open:
Sunday September 16, from 3pm-6pm.
Thursday September 20, from 5pm-8pm.
Sunday September 23, from 12pm-5pm.
Thursday September 27, from 5pm-8pm.