Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
OSB, rat glue, rat glue containers, 150x130cm
Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
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Insect killing lamps, wood and OSB, 214x130cm
Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
Installation view
Insect killing lamps, wood and OSB, 214x130cm
The Silence Under the Lamp and the Tragedy of Doors
Installation view
Video (03:51, loop)
The Silence Under the Lamp and the Tragedy of Doors
Video (03:51, loop)
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Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE
15.06 - 30.06.2018
Curated by Denitsa Milusheva
Radical Gallery
Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
“Lars Nordby repeatedly tackles the issue of identity, utilizing conceptual means through the visual form. In his latest contemplation over the abstract boundaries of where the factual – by definition – frontline of identity begins and where, and if, it ends, the viewer is invited to observe a stage, not unlike in a theater, which is absolved of ending or beginning. The stage props are intended pest control materials, inviting their targeted groups, i.e. fruit flies & rats, to meet their end, but in themselves devoid of them. Thus making for a state of endless perpetuity of both beginning and end.”
- Emil Stefanov, Outtake from press release and We Contain Multitudes / Read more
“The work centres on the toling of subjects, through the implied act of attraction. The subjects are unable to represent themselves, and force the viewer to consider meaning beyond the subject. Fruit flies and rats are presented as the desired subjects to show/attract – but what identity can these creatures actually carry for the viewer, other than associations that supersedes their own identity?
Generally unwanted due to the associations we have to the conditions these creatures tend to appear in, the objects within Nordby’s piece demonstrate the somewhat contradictory undesirability of the subjects they are meant to attract.”
- Hanna Gjelten Hattrem, Outtake from press release and Abstract Frontline of Identity: To Tole / Read more
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15.06 - 30.06.2018
Curated by Denitsa Milusheva
Radical Gallery
Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
“Lars Nordby repeatedly tackles the issue of identity, utilizing conceptual means through the visual form. In his latest contemplation over the abstract boundaries of where the factual – by definition – frontline of identity begins and where, and if, it ends, the viewer is invited to observe a stage, not unlike in a theater, which is absolved of ending or beginning. The stage props are intended pest control materials, inviting their targeted groups, i.e. fruit flies & rats, to meet their end, but in themselves devoid of them. Thus making for a state of endless perpetuity of both beginning and end.”
- Emil Stefanov, Outtake from press release and We Contain Multitudes / Read more
“The work centres on the toling of subjects, through the implied act of attraction. The subjects are unable to represent themselves, and force the viewer to consider meaning beyond the subject. Fruit flies and rats are presented as the desired subjects to show/attract – but what identity can these creatures actually carry for the viewer, other than associations that supersedes their own identity?
Generally unwanted due to the associations we have to the conditions these creatures tend to appear in, the objects within Nordby’s piece demonstrate the somewhat contradictory undesirability of the subjects they are meant to attract.”
- Hanna Gjelten Hattrem, Outtake from press release and Abstract Frontline of Identity: To Tole / Read more
