Welcome to the opening of the group-exhibition 'Concrete reflections' with Elin Brissman, Siren Dahle, Kipras Dubauskas, Sverre Gullesen, Jon Benjamin Tallerås and Morten Jensen Vågen!
Thursday January 12th 6-8pm
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Elin Brissman (b. 1982, SE) paints photorealistic windows, doors and house facades. In her works, no action or people are shown, only worn surfaces, walls and reflections in the glass. Details in a windowsill can give a vague idea of its anonymous inhabitant. Her works are based on places she has been, and collectively they become a collection of post-war modernist facades that most people would pass by without a glance.
Jon Benjamin Tallerås (b. 1984, Oslo, NO) investigates the relationship between the individual and the urban environment. His work questions ownership through examining different ways of navigating, seeing and exploring the ever-changing landscape of the city. In all of his works, Tallerås is performing social readings of the ways of the city - questioning what is private versus what is public domain, and the relations between juridical, social and physical constructions.
The surfaces of Sverre Gullesen’s (b. 1980, Mo i Rana, NO) sculptures are reminiscent of grand modernist facades, as seen in many European cities. His works have their own language and fragility that interestingly stand against the ideas of masculine modernism. His works are humorous and dominant, playing with the ideas around societal structures, systems and ideologies being torn apart and reworked.
Morten Jensen Vågen (b. 1987, Haugesund, NO) primarily works with video and sculptures, and is thematically interested in urban environments, popular culture and surveillance. He creates pieces of value in a do-it-yourself manner; a bank note made with almost dried out coffee from a serve yourself coffee machine, a surveillance room disguised as pile of planks or a still life sculpture of a pile of garbage. Many of his works question societal norms of value in a capitalist society.
Siren Dahle (b. 1986, Stavanger, NO) uses photographic starting points of collapsed buildings. These images of ruins are woven, and a fine-meshed interaction emerges between construction and the destructive collapse associated with warfare and crisis. The architecture is grim, apparently destroyed. Dahle’s work paints a picture of a more existential decay – distorted thoughts and feelings of discouragement. She places herself at an intersection of contrasts: between imperfect beauty, an aesthetics of decay, and the possibility of building something up.
Kipras Dubauskas (b. 1988, Vilnius, LT) is interested in the forgotten and untapped areas of a city, both the urban- and the more natural parts. Through video and sculpture, he explores the over– and underground infrastructures of a city, where he gives non-spaces a new focus and value. He is interested what happens when you bring these spaces into an institutional framework of gallery space.
CONCRETE REFLECTIONS
Elin Brissman, Siren Elise Dversnes Dahle, Kipras Dubauskas, Sverre Gullesen, Jon Benjamin Tallerås og Morten Jensen Vågen
12.01.2023 – 12.02.2023
Picture: Painting by Elin Brissman
TORSDAG 12. JANUAR 2023 KL. 18:00–20:00
Exhibition opening: Concrete reflections
Arrangement av QBG
Sted: QBG, Gabels gate 43, 0262 Oslo, Norge