S t a y, I l l u s i o n ! 2024
Solo exhibition, performance (duration 10 mins) and installation
Presented at MLAG, Bergen (NO)
In a performance astrology and conspiracy theories are fragmentarily woven together with Hamlet and composed anecdotes. This in a spatiality where glamping and prepper culture seeks affinity with each other.
The exhibition Stay, Illusion! examines, with an ambiguous narrative, the concept of truth. With a focus on source criticism and passive/active stances, the ”search for the truth” is investigated through live performance and small installations that are all connected to water in different ways.
Here the water as performative material becomes a temporary place for censorship.
It both acts as a free zone and a potential killer - for humans, the water is a temporary room as we cannot stay below the surface for too long. However, there was a time when that was considered a truth and drowned many women during the 17th century witch trials. What do relative truths look like today and what happens when they are perceived as absolute?
With ready mades composed in geometric formations, water and light, the exhibition touches thoughts around capitalization on the doom, forest bathing and how Mars affects politics when it goes retrograde.
The exhibition was supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Thank you Michael Laundry, Sebastian Rudolph Jensen and ReturKultur