Herein Between Spaces
This fall鈥檚 group exhibition at Marbouparken konsthall takes its outset in the meeting between text and image. Text and image have throughout art history coexisted in many different forms and contexts. This exhibition focuses on art works which through their artistic method open up for a fruitful uncertainty and ambiguity, works that force us to read them simultaneously through different languages or with a double gaze. The exhibition includes works by artists active within different artistic practices and will follow a few paths through this wide field.
Image and text make out two different kinds of readings or spaces within the work, close to each other, sometimes contradicting each other, but always creating a kind of rupture or gap which can鈥檛 be completely overbridged. A poetic disconnection in which the artwork is oscillating in an in-between space. This space between the spaces is a place for redefinition and negotiation where new understandings and readings can emerge.
In the 1970s the American photographer Duane Michals and Finnish Carl-Erik Str枚m created photographic sequences where they added handwritten text to the image. In Michals work, the text creates the narrative while in Str枚ms the text often contradicts the image.
Another thread in the exhibition approaches concrete poetry. Lina Nordenstr枚m works mainly with different printmaking techniques and artist books. The artist and poet Karl Holmqvist participates with a film which relies on the recited poetic text and the artist鈥檚 voice.
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This fall鈥檚 group exhibition at Marbouparken konsthall takes its outset in the meeting between text and image. Text and image have throughout art history coexisted in many different forms and contexts. This exhibition focuses on art works which through their artistic method open up for a fruitful uncertainty and ambiguity, works that force us to read them simultaneously through different languages or with a double gaze. The exhibition includes works by artists active within different artistic practices and will follow a few paths through this wide field.
Image and text make out two different kinds of readings or spaces within the work, close to each other, sometimes contradicting each other, but always creating a kind of rupture or gap which can鈥檛 be completely overbridged. A poetic disconnection in which the artwork is oscillating in an in-between space. This space between the spaces is a place for redefinition and negotiation where new understandings and readings can emerge.
In the 1970s the American photographer Duane Michals and Finnish Carl-Erik Str枚m created photographic sequences where they added handwritten text to the image. In Michals work, the text creates the narrative while in Str枚ms the text often contradicts the image.
Another thread in the exhibition approaches concrete poetry. Lina Nordenstr枚m works mainly with different printmaking techniques and artist books. The artist and poet Karl Holmqvist participates with a film which relies on the recited poetic text and the artist鈥檚 voice.
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