Stuck on a Melting Rock n’ Rolling showed works of six young Scandinavian artists working in different media. Even though the attitudes and expressions vary between the artworks, they all possess a kind of Scandinavia-ishness. Working in the borders of myth and reality, and of fiction and documentary the works express in many ways a social condition where the human relations have been cut off.
Psychedelic Warriors: Jane Hellen's Nightmare (2006), video, ©Psychedelic Warriors
Psychedelic Warriors: Jane Hellen's Nightmare (2006), installation view
Jacqueline Forzelius: Moan special edition (2006) fanzine, installation view.
Installation view, Hilde Jørgensen: Hunter's Game (on wall), Jacqueline Forzelius: Moan special edition (in front)
Installation view, Jacqueline Forzelius: Moan special edition and Leander Djønne: Love Kills The Demon
Installation view, Hilde Jørgensen Hunter's Game (2006) (on wall), Psychedelic Warriors: Jane Hellen's Nightmare (second floor)
Hilde Jørgensen Hunter's Game, text detail
Bar for the opening and Leander Djønne Love Kills The Demon (in front)
Leander Djønne: Love Kills The Demon (2006)
Leander Djønne: Love Kills The Demon (2006)
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Hilde Jørgensen presented an installation of text and photography. The title of the works is Hunter’s Game where we are presented with a society of people that seems in a state of degradation and fragmentation, but still with a strong presence of sensuality and lust.
The Psychedelic Warriors is a collaboration between the two artists Kjersti Vetterstad and Monica Winther, where they together work and juggle between different media. The common idea of their collaboration is to create the universe of the fictive “Psychedelic Warriors”. They are influenced and inspired by Christian sects, New Age and Black Metal culture. In their video Jane Hellen’s Nightmare we can follow the warriors hunting each other in the darkest forest.
The video Can I be a Woman? of Kristian Ø. Dahl shows a person frustrated and confused while driving around in a deserted utopian area. Suddenly we are exposed for a meeting between two men. If they already know each other is uncertain. There is a arguing about the driver’s possibilities of being a woman. This is expressed as a wish from the driver’s side, due to the idea that he is not good enough as a man.
Leander Djønne works with in various media, ranging from performance, text, drawing and music. For the exhibition he is showing the mini sculpture Love Kills The Demon, representing a closed world where lust is ruling and the connections between people seem shattered and may be not present at all. A peep-in-universe of diverse signs, symbols and layers. Images of sexual intercourse while both a nun and her Sunday school girls are watching. Crystals of blue and a golden ground with the Yin and Yang placed in the centre of the scenery. The elephant with its presence gives the whole scenery a notion of something surreal.
The Moan Fanzine by Jacqueline Forzelius is a playful, critic and humoristic gaze on our society, daily lives and self denial. Forzelius’ drawings and texts are perfectly balancing between the grotesque, naïve and the absurd. Its like doodling while listening to a dull world or crying for attention on the phone. Or Moan transforms a dull dry day into soft, supple satin. Smoothes and perfects the day for a healthy, radiant appearance. Jaqueline Forzelius presents her fanzine Moan special edition a copied number of 100 editions for this show.
The exhibition was on view 7.04.06 – 13.05.06
This exhibition was kindly supported by:
Municipality of Bergen, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway
liquidaciontotal.org – A special thanks to Mariano Sanz
