Blue Seats, 2024
Installation view
Blue Seats #1, 2024
Photography (70x120cm), museum lighting lamp, and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm)
Blue Seats #4, 2024
Detail of museum lighting lamp and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm)
Blue Seats, 2024
Installation view
Blue Seats, 2024
Installation view
Blue Seats #5, 2024
Detail of museum lighting lamp and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm)
Blue Seats
19.08 - 10.09.2024
Centralbanken
Oslo, Norway
www.instagram.com/centralbanken/
The exhibition 'Blue Seats' presents a series of works exploring the absence of conventional storytelling. A photo series mounted in pairs featuring empty audience halls in different theaters juxtaposed with silkscreen prints of their architectural floor plans. A theatre may house a show, but it also presents its own architectural reality. Choreographed exposition and exhibited choreography are the rendition of this kind of negotiation between visual art, exhibition spaces, and performing arts, which sets up the spectatorship dialectic between temporal and spatial dynamics. Within a migration process, from the black box to the white cube, the theatrical body becomes a work of art, through a process of objectivation. Likewise, spectators participation is choreographed, as well as the very act of observation. The exhibition space loses its structural and statutory hierarchies, becoming a hybrid place, a meta-theatre and simultaneously a meta-museum. Points of view change; the frontal perspective of the theatrical or cinematographic architectures, and the Renaissance monocular gaze disappear. That is a contemporary dynamic of creolization for which, within an exhibition context, the spectator’s enjoyment meets with a theatrical approach, becoming a critical device of transcultural mediation.
The exhibition is supported by Norske Billedkunstnere. Many thanks to Arild Tveito, Benjamin Savi, and Marie Kraft.
Photo Credits: Lea Stuedahl
19.08 - 10.09.2024
Centralbanken
Oslo, Norway
www.instagram.com/centralbanken/
The exhibition 'Blue Seats' presents a series of works exploring the absence of conventional storytelling. A photo series mounted in pairs featuring empty audience halls in different theaters juxtaposed with silkscreen prints of their architectural floor plans. A theatre may house a show, but it also presents its own architectural reality. Choreographed exposition and exhibited choreography are the rendition of this kind of negotiation between visual art, exhibition spaces, and performing arts, which sets up the spectatorship dialectic between temporal and spatial dynamics. Within a migration process, from the black box to the white cube, the theatrical body becomes a work of art, through a process of objectivation. Likewise, spectators participation is choreographed, as well as the very act of observation. The exhibition space loses its structural and statutory hierarchies, becoming a hybrid place, a meta-theatre and simultaneously a meta-museum. Points of view change; the frontal perspective of the theatrical or cinematographic architectures, and the Renaissance monocular gaze disappear. That is a contemporary dynamic of creolization for which, within an exhibition context, the spectator’s enjoyment meets with a theatrical approach, becoming a critical device of transcultural mediation.
The exhibition is supported by Norske Billedkunstnere. Many thanks to Arild Tveito, Benjamin Savi, and Marie Kraft.
Photo Credits: Lea Stuedahl