A group show by Sidsel Lindbæk Mouridsen, Simona Popovic, Christoffer Stig and Sidsel Winther

Ephemeral moments, frozen in time. Snapshots of an intimate presence, just before the light disappears and the shadows dissolve. Soft paper oversaturated with printing ink. A silence before a storm that might never come.

However different all the works might seem, they all have in common that they’re inhabited rooms, abandoned by humans. A certain presence is there. Or maybe more precisely; a presence that arises from an absence. An absence of human figures. An absence that makes the observer observe that some kind of anthropomorphic act has been going on prior to this moment, that’s now framed in time and space through the graphic process.

Analogue processes of printing require bodies and physical labour. It takes a pair of strong arms to work the ink, paper has to be torn without hesitation, mixing of colours activates the sense of tactility. Hand and body performs the work, but precisely these are absent in the pictorial landscape of the four artists. Maybe that’s what’s intuitively recognized in the meeting with graphic works. An attention to and care of hands, that stubbornly have held onto these moments of present absence. a tactile knowledge that has been passed on from generation to generation and are now in the hands of this young generation of artists.

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Sidsel Lindbæk Mouridsen (b. 1995) has been making works that deal with time. Time and the inevitable change, that will always leave something behind. The work concerns the effort of trying to preserve. To understand the patterns of coincidences and connections that creates a life. An exploration of whether one through the transmissions of craftsmanship and the work of the hands, can make something tangible, something that can survive time. Objects that can preserve the connections and memories that would otherwise disappear.

Simona Popovic (b. 1990) works with capturing light, both where it is being emitted (casted) and obstructed (blocked). She invites the viewer into a world, where light is more than mere illumination, but transcends and becomes a metaphor for emotions, experiences and existential reflections. Both literally and metaphorically her motifs are interior rooms and exterior architectural reflections. Through the analogue camera her works reflect both directly process, emotions and atmospheres stretched out in time, which allows the observer to enter the essence of the captured moment, long after it has passed.

Christoffer Stig (b. 1997) works with an exploration of light and light’s relation to nature and human constructions. Through the graphic processes he captures and translates these impressions. In this way reflecting over the interaction between nature and the human perception of it.

Sidsel Winther (b. 1991) works with what’s in her proximity. Acknowledging materials as carrying history and being embedded with information. Digging through piles of composted graveyard flowers at the cemetery. Getting her hands dirty with manifestations of grief, used paper tissues and to-go cups. Abject materials from production chains of extraction, loss and
life goes on. Working in the melting point/fusion of image and materiality, as the print is printing, but the material also always printing back. She borrows techniques from different traditions of crafts to investigate how this material density meets the tight patterns of tradition. Making gestures to the structures that sustain life.