Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More), 2022
Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work.
Concement (Golem No More)
20.05 - 01.10.2022
Group exhibition / part of the 25th Gabrovo Bienniale
Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Curated by Olav Westphalen
For the 25th Gabrovo Biennale context, Nordby stages an art installation of cement bags - one of the most stubborn, harmful, and consumed materials of the 21st Century - parodying ways of framing material overconsumption. Two pallets of thirty-eight cement bags each are placed on the floor in the Gabrovo Museums exhibition space. Each bag has new artist-made packaging with original poetic text-work.
- Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale catalog
The world has been running on steroids. Nature is privatized and cheapened. Our voracious extraction and consumption of resources have created an ecological debt gone default. Acceleration and gigantism have shaped a metabolic cycle between capital and nature, North and South, rich and poor, clean and polluted, with greed and hypertrophy on one end and exhaustion on the other. There is a global freak show going on, a spectacle of disproportion and distortion reminiscent of those 19th century displays of deformed humans and animals. Only now it happens on a planetary scale and we’re all in it. At times, it seems as if the vicious comedy of the freak show might be the appropriate response to our present-day monstrosity.
- Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale press release
Photo documentation by Rosina Pencheva
20.05 - 01.10.2022
Group exhibition / part of the 25th Gabrovo Bienniale
Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Curated by Olav Westphalen
For the 25th Gabrovo Biennale context, Nordby stages an art installation of cement bags - one of the most stubborn, harmful, and consumed materials of the 21st Century - parodying ways of framing material overconsumption. Two pallets of thirty-eight cement bags each are placed on the floor in the Gabrovo Museums exhibition space. Each bag has new artist-made packaging with original poetic text-work.
- Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale catalog
The world has been running on steroids. Nature is privatized and cheapened. Our voracious extraction and consumption of resources have created an ecological debt gone default. Acceleration and gigantism have shaped a metabolic cycle between capital and nature, North and South, rich and poor, clean and polluted, with greed and hypertrophy on one end and exhaustion on the other. There is a global freak show going on, a spectacle of disproportion and distortion reminiscent of those 19th century displays of deformed humans and animals. Only now it happens on a planetary scale and we’re all in it. At times, it seems as if the vicious comedy of the freak show might be the appropriate response to our present-day monstrosity.
- Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale press release
Photo documentation by Rosina Pencheva