The Stage
Installation view, 314x498cm
Soil, plastic, MDF, UV printed cardboards, wingless fruit flies
The Stage
Detail, 314x498cm
Soil, plastic, MDF, UV printed cardboards, wingless fruit flies
The Stage
Detail, 314x498cm
Soil, plastic, MDF, UV printed cardboards, wingless fruit flies
Jigsaw Puzzle Solved for Symbolic Reasons
29x24cm, framed UV printed puzzle
Abstract Frontline of Identity
Installation view
Cardboard, digital prints
Abstract Frontline of Identity, 1
65x102cm, digital detail
Abstract Frontline of Identity, 2
65x102, digital detail
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Abstract Frontline of Identity
27.01 - 11.02.2018
Opening night with poetry reading by Morten Langeland.
Hamar Kunstforening
Hamar, Norway
“The Abstract Frontline of Identity address the ephemeral essence of identity, which solicits its deconstruction. Here the character in focus is the fruit fly taken as "the very contemporary symbol of identity" conveying the sense of "self-realization, disappearance, loss, death and absurdity." It is clear that in this sense the fruit fly's putative identity is not fixed but is instead taken over by the dynamics of all that it is not, by its other. This is indeed a dynamics that encompasses both the nature of the self and its other, while remaining refractory to the "mechanisms of identity.
Nordby's art is not exactly apolitical. His focus on the abstract misfits of identity also dispels primitive topocentric tendencies. The dystopian experience of a denied voice by being re-positioned as Other, which has begun of late to threaten the integrity of our civilization and the global peace, has aroused in him a profound artistic aversion.”
- Rossen Roussev, Outtake from press release and Vanishing Identities: On the Deconstructive Aura of Lars Nordby's Conceptual Art / Read more
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27.01 - 11.02.2018
Opening night with poetry reading by Morten Langeland.
Hamar Kunstforening
Hamar, Norway
“The Abstract Frontline of Identity address the ephemeral essence of identity, which solicits its deconstruction. Here the character in focus is the fruit fly taken as "the very contemporary symbol of identity" conveying the sense of "self-realization, disappearance, loss, death and absurdity." It is clear that in this sense the fruit fly's putative identity is not fixed but is instead taken over by the dynamics of all that it is not, by its other. This is indeed a dynamics that encompasses both the nature of the self and its other, while remaining refractory to the "mechanisms of identity.
Nordby's art is not exactly apolitical. His focus on the abstract misfits of identity also dispels primitive topocentric tendencies. The dystopian experience of a denied voice by being re-positioned as Other, which has begun of late to threaten the integrity of our civilization and the global peace, has aroused in him a profound artistic aversion.”
- Rossen Roussev, Outtake from press release and Vanishing Identities: On the Deconstructive Aura of Lars Nordby's Conceptual Art / Read more
