A Flora Of The Moment
A quote from the American filmmaker James Benning who once stated that the role of the artist is to 鈥減ay attention and report back鈥� has inspired this year鈥檚 summer exhibition at Marabouparken konsthall. In Benning鈥檚 work, the act of seeing and the gaze are the foremost tools for establishing a relation between the motive and the artist/viewer. In other works, intuition and listening play important roles. The park, in which Marabouparken konsthall is situated, is another obvious starting point.
On one level, the exhibition can be seen as a question about whether empathy with our surrounding world, can be a tool for establishing a more sustainable relation to nature. On another level it wants to point to the changeable, temporary and unexpected as immanent poetic qualities in nature and in art 鈥� a capacity that allow us to see reality from new perspectives and open up for hope and possibilities for transformed structures.
The works included in the exhibition all build on nature studies and extended meetings with nature in different forms 鈥� plants, trees, the sound of birds, oceans. In James Benning鈥檚 film small roads (2011) the viewer is immediately reminded of the sudden moment of stillness and width one can experience when standing in the middle of nature after a road trip 鈥� today complicated by a feeling of nostalgia since neither the car nor the surrounding nature any longer can be said to symbolize the freedom it once did.
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A quote from the American filmmaker James Benning who once stated that the role of the artist is to 鈥減ay attention and report back鈥� has inspired this year鈥檚 summer exhibition at Marabouparken konsthall. In Benning鈥檚 work, the act of seeing and the gaze are the foremost tools for establishing a relation between the motive and the artist/viewer. In other works, intuition and listening play important roles. The park, in which Marabouparken konsthall is situated, is another obvious starting point.
On one level, the exhibition can be seen as a question about whether empathy with our surrounding world, can be a tool for establishing a more sustainable relation to nature. On another level it wants to point to the changeable, temporary and unexpected as immanent poetic qualities in nature and in art 鈥� a capacity that allow us to see reality from new perspectives and open up for hope and possibilities for transformed structures.
The works included in the exhibition all build on nature studies and extended meetings with nature in different forms 鈥� plants, trees, the sound of birds, oceans. In James Benning鈥檚 film small roads (2011) the viewer is immediately reminded of the sudden moment of stillness and width one can experience when standing in the middle of nature after a road trip 鈥� today complicated by a feeling of nostalgia since neither the car nor the surrounding nature any longer can be said to symbolize the freedom it once did.
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