Current ExHIbition
14 January – 12 February 2012
THINGS REMEMBERED, LOST AND FOUND
Maj Hasager and Rikke Flensberg
"Lost and Found", photos by Maj Hasager
New works by Maj Hasager and Rikke Flensberg are presented at the exhibition "Things Remembered, Lost and Found". In the exhibition, the gaze of the photographer and her ability to create new realities through the camera lens, by means of its documentary character or as a possible (re)constructive act, are discussed.
The focal point is the ability of the media to create images of remembrance and to construct realities which are stored as new memories, while abstractions and stories about places and realities are examined though different approaches to the medium.
The abstract is mixed with the conceptual when two artistic practices meet in the exhibition space and new dilemmas and relations arise. Flensberg's minimalistic universe is mixed with Hasager's visual and auditive narratives from a Palestinian context where the past is mediated though a UN soldier deployed to the Gaza strip in 1962 and the present is reflected as snapshots presented as texts and colour surfaces isolated from their original context. Where Flensberg's minimalistic photographic objects point to an intimate room of remembrance and ask for contemplation, Hasager's works leave a trace in history which is neither linear nor objective but points to the collective, the personal, and the at times conflict-laden situations and stories.
Through the installment in the darkened exhibition space, the works are combined. Where Flensberg's video work takes a phenomenological approach, from a perspective which defies the normal perception of reality Hasager's sound and slide installation vibrates statically in the room. Slowly erasing the images and the memories of the other over time while the voice, which fills the room, pulls us into the spaces which emerge between past and present, narration and interpretation.
New narratives arise in the exhibition space as a result of an interest shared by the artists, who are both focussing on how histories are being mediated, and how it affects the realities which are portrayed. The memory is seen as a conscious or unconscious construction that creates meaning and coherence in the present rather than reflecting the past correctly.
Maj Hasager and Rikke Flensberg both hold a Master of Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy, graduating in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Council
Exhibitionview - Room I
Work by Maj Hasager: "Grænselandet", 2012
Video by Rikke Flensberg: "Den Langsomme Verden", 2012
Press Release / Press Photos / Opening