Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Press release, april 2024
In a play we imitate others and pretend to be someone else on a big, bright stage accompanied by music that sets the tone. In life we play different characters in an attempt to adapt to our environment in a much less dramatic way. The exhibited artworks place the viewer in a room of theatrical drama. There are faces looking at you from every angle, and it makes you feel like you are stepping onto a silent stage, unable to understand the rules of the play that you are taking part in.
Sidsel Winther (b. 1991) works site-specific and pays close attention to context and installation. She acknowledges the room as an already established context, that her works inscribe themselves in. Through this interference she re-enacts the scenario and renegotiates the history. For “The Play” Sidsel Winther has been working with objects deprived of their function. Sidsel Winther’s translations from one material to another can negotiate agency of an object and hierarchical position. Her exhibited sculptures are frozen in time and materially in a state of moldering, circling around points of decay. Hereby she explores the question of what’s left when everyone else has left the stage.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Kristoffer Bech (b. 1990) comes from a musical background. As a songwriter, lead singer and live performer, he fundamentally explores the ‘stage’ as an underlying theme in his artworks. He has worked scenographically with installations, where sound, sculpture and painting interfere as they were theatrical backdrops. These backdrops were exploring the depths and limits of human psychology, aiming to portray a haunting psychological interior and/or exterior. Currently he is exploring the painting as a stage in itself, which is evident in his exhibited artworks.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
Photo: Sidsel Winther.
“The Play” examines themes such as identity, imitation and decay, and furthermore explores the boundaries between our inner and outer appearance. The exhibition deals with the pressure that lies on the shoulders of the individual, while also questioning the act of our daily, repeated performances. “The Play” exhibits a theater stage, frozen in time while decaying slowly, placing you in the middle of a performance with no end.
Exhibition period: April 5th - May 18th, 2024.
Opening hours: Wednesday - Friday, 11-5pm (kl. 11-17). Saturday, 11-4pm (kl. 11-16) or by appointment.