NAIL SOUP
NAIL SOUP
April 3 – May 23, 2009
Susanna Hesselberg (NO), Jakob Hunosøe (DK), David Shrigley (UK), Erwin Wurm (AT), Uffe Holm (DK), Jeanette Hillig (DK), Onarto & Krebs (CH)
A bucket, a lamp and a room are turned into a meeting between the recognizable and the unreal. Everyday objects and situations are pushed to extremes in the exhibition Nail Soup. Through cunning constellations, absurd scenes and subtle glints of humour, the exhibition challenges our customary approach to the world as it appears before our eyes.
The exhibition displays photographic as well as sculptural works. The artistic approach renders possible new and unaccustomed angles on our being-in-the-world. Due to the two-dimensional space of the photograph and the spaciousness of the sculpture, the exhibiting artists are capable of creating small cracks and displacements in the surroundings as we know them.
From an artistic point of view, these meetings between familiar objects and surreal constellations raise questions about the attributes of the objects across the borders of the photograph and the sculpture as media. What makes an object a sculpture? When does an object serve as a motif for a photographic work? And, when is the photograph merely a recording of the presence of the object or sculpture?
The title of the exhibition, Nail Soup alludes to the folktale about a tramp making soup with a nail, or, put differently, about creating something out of nothing. Narratives are arranged in the exhibited universe of everyday articles, utensils, pieces of furniture and odd scenes no longer restricted to the functions and meaning ascribed to them in everyday life. Instead, they are turned upside down, mutating and transforming into mysterious and open narratives.
peter lav PHOTO GALLERY | current show
