Wrap Your Troubles in a Dream

Wrap Your Troubles in a Dream

Yesterday Is Crowding Up My World #1

mdf, finer, palisander
199 cm x 219 cm x 50 cm

Group show at Lautom Contemporary, Oslo 15. August – 14 September 2008.

Curated by Power Ekroth

Artists: Juan Pedro Fabra, Tessa Farmer, Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen, Andreas Heuch, Gabriel Lester, Katarina Löfström, Johan Thurfjell and Jordan Wolfson.

Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen (Norway) created a site specific work for the magazine SITE in 2007 named ”YESTERDAY IS CROWDING UP MY WORLD” where the words of the title is arranged and adapted so that it visualizes the claustrophobia that easily happens when contemplating today’s world-events or the personal luggage that one tends to carry on in life. Hansen takes the project into three dimensionality and has continued to develop the visual appearance and will produce a completely new work for the exhibition. Hansen, who is based in Berlin, may be best known for the project Håkki™ that made the cover of Contemporary Magazine in 2006, where the boundaries between economy, corporate ideas, utopia, society and art are expanded and explored. www.kowalskiness.com & www.haakki.com

The psychological process of repression happens when the unconscious excludes painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind. At times it is necessary to consciously and actively use repression as a defense mechanism to be able to shift emotions, affect, or desires to avoid a paralyzing state of mind. This does not have to mean that one cowardly avoid seeing things for what they are, but instead it can help so see the problem in more clear light; to deal with the “real deal” and not fight the ad hoc problems. The arts, theatre, cinema, literature, dance and the visual art, are ingenious tools for a mental refuge where it is possible to “change the channel” and see a reality from a different viewpoint and possibly from a meta-perspective.

The artists chosen for the exhibition are all emerging artists on an international arena. The artists are all dealing with narratives in complicated structures and layers for their work, where the content often dwells upon escapism versus the reality and how a dreamlike world may be a perfect remedy to be able to see just how surreal the reality itself is. The observer is led through the artist’s experimentations and explorations of the narratives and will thereby be given a chance to use their own imagination in combination with their intellect to project an alternate layer through which it is possible to see the reality outside the gallery with. After all this is what art can do when it is at its best for a romantic soul – to displace and re-focus perspectives to comprehend an actuality in a broader way.

Power Ekroth

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