View Rhythm of Life in front Process -Cypernetic- 2022 90x820x765 cm
Lambskin, foam, aluminium and silicone
In front Process -Cypernetic- 2022
Rhythm of Life 2022 240 ø cm. shyntetic chiffin and handcut plywood
View on wall Out There in Here ll 2022 300x86x5 cm. silk, silkpaint and lasercut plywood
From left Organell 2022 166x186x1,5 cm. silk, silkpaint and handcut plywood,
Meiose 2022 170x153x1,5 cm. silk, silkpaint and handcut plywood,
Genome 2022 210x113x1,5 cm. silk, silkpaint and handcut plywood.
DNA 2022 87x250x140 cm. copper
Process -Cypernetic- close up
Process Cypernetic close up
Process Cypernetic close up
Process -Cypernetic- 2022 close up lambskin and foam
Entrance view in front Hybrids
Hybrids (cyborn) 2022 each 23x33x2.5 cm Brass, copper and hairextensions
Hybrid Cocoon 2022 33x107x78 cm. suede and foam
Hybrid Cocoon 2022 26x112x70 cm. leather and foam
Hybrid Cocoon 2020 36x120x66 cm. leather and foam
Out There in Here ll 2022 silk, silkpaint and lasercut plywood
Louise Sparre // Rhythm of Life
The exhibition Rhythm of Life in Kunsthal Kongegaardens X-rum (KGX) is an artistic treatment of reflections on connectedness. With her sensual and visually stimulating style, Louise Sparre connects our inner and outer spaces and points out how everything is part of a larger and vital ecosystem.
The works' materials; silk, leather, hair, fur, silicone and aluminum enter into an elegant dialogue with both concept and composition, revealing a landscape that is at once zoomed all the way to the outer galaxies of the universe and all the way into the matter of our bodies and the microorganisms, they consist of. Galaxies, planets and microbes thus make up Louise Sparre's palette, and Rhythm of Life materializes as a poetic round trip into ourselves and out into the great macrocosm.
As is hinted at in the exhibition's title Rhythm of Life, Louise Sparre is not only concerned with internal connections but with the larger processes of life, where everything is always in either a build-up or break-down phase. In this way, she refers not only to the human rhythm of life - from young to old - but to the transformation that takes place all the time at both cellular and planetary level, and which supports the mutual dependence of all living species.
Louise Sparre's Soft Sculptures, which hang out in the entrance area, are perceived as a kind of cocoons that emphasize the transformation process as a supporting theme in the exhibition. At the same time, the sculptures mark the entrance as a spatial transition into and out of the artist's universe.
In the large and very high exhibition space, a galaxy of painted silk hangs on the wall, and in the installation Process - Cypernetic, open, slender aluminum structures are connected to long-haired fur objects in a semicircle, inviting the exhibition visitor to position himself as part of the chain of evolution. "Are you yourself the beginning or the end?", the work seems to ask.
The handle is at once minimalistic and sumptuous, tight and pompous - perhaps even a little naive in its expression - and Louise Sparre consciously uses this dynamic to visually visualize the relationship between life's incredible complexity - and simultaneous perfect simplicity. In this work, Louise Sparre projects a feminine and caring look at the universe as an alternative to the more masculine sci-fi aesthetics that have otherwise defined our view of astronomy, and presents a form of feminist retelling of the gestalt of space.
Rhythm of Life is a body where we ourselves make up the cells in the exhibition's own small ecosystem. Enlightenment man's superhuman view of nature is dismantled and we can return to the world with a renewed awareness of the connectedness of everything - that we are, after all, all made of stardust.
Text by Nanna Balslev Strøjer
The exhibition was supported by The Danish Art Foundation, Kulturudviklingspuljen Aarhus, Den Obelske Familiefond og Slagelse Kommune
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