Tanken Fyller Rummet (The Thought Fills the Room)
Duo exhibition with Beth Laurin, Galleri Riis, Stockholm
2016.04.04–2016.05.07
We are very proud to present an exhibition with Beth Laurin (b. 1935) and Lina Selander (b. 1973). With one room each, Beth Laurin presents works on paper between the years 1965 and 1980, and Lina Selander shows two video installations from 2013 and 2016.
The idea of bringing them together comes from our interest in their distinctive and consistently driven artistic work and in what could happen in the encounter between them. They both work with methods of assembling and disassembling: re-writing, re-wording, duplicating, mirroring, sound, silence, dissecting things to get something unimaginable, putting together and assembling disparate elements into stories, often creating more questions than giving answers. Both of them strike us with their sense of uncompromisingness; they seem to be driven by a fundamental interest in exposing and presenting phenomena, historical events, the humankind and the individual in ways that go beyond the cliché-filled and already-made and that put things in a new light.
Anteckningar till en film om naturen (Notes for a Film on Nature), is shown for the first time. It is a film projected onto a photograph depicting a former courtroom, now an exhibition space, where a screen has been placed in the judge’s position. Anteckningar till en film om naturen is also an overwriting film, a palimpsest. The work seeks positions and outposts on the border between nature and image. Here is the dream of the empty gaze, of death, of montage as the opposite of nature.
Model of Continuation (2013) also contains a spatial meta perspective, a filmed film shot in a studio, which then gets its final location in the gallery room. The film deals with traces of Hiroshima and of memories of radioactivity. Selander talks about returning to over-documented places, a shift of a given order.
Photo: Fredrik Bjernelind
