Markus Degerman, Lisa Torell
dal 4/2/2003 al 9/3/2003
Segnalato da
4/2/2003
Markus Degerman, Lisa Torell
Index - the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
These two artists have been invited to exhibit together due to their common personal and political attitudes, where their conceptual works cannot be experienced primarily as private or self-revelatory processes. Instead, they are factual and reflective, trying to describe our era on a more general level through perceiving and reporting tendencies in our society.
This February, Index is exhibiting work by two Stockholm-based artists,
Markus Degerman and Lisa Torell. These two artists have been invited to
exhibit together due to their common personal and political attitudes, where
their conceptual works cannot be experienced primarily as private or
self-revelatory processes. Instead, they are factual and reflective, trying
to describe our era on a more general level through perceiving and reporting
tendencies in our society.
In the lower gallery, Markus Degerman shows a sequence of images in his
DVD-installation Leftovers(2002), portraying various episodes occurring in
an indeterminate public space: part of an urban construction that does not
work satisfactorily and which requires modification and redefinition.
According to Markus Degerman, the basis for discussion in this work lays
first of all with the viewer, at a very personal level. One practical
scenario might be to gradually let certain spaces in the urban environment,
whose function is presently unclear, be utilised by those parties interested
in it. Markus Degerman was educated at Umea Art Academy, 1993 Â 1998.
Recently, his work was shown at Life Gallery, Stockholm, Artgenda in
Hamburg, 2002 and Eskilstuna Art Museum (2002). Markus Degerman is also part
of the designer collective Uglycute who has been selected for participation
in this years Venice Biennial.
In the upper gallery, Lisa Torell has produced a new work, Camouflage -
Terrors of Daily Life a series of fictive narratives presented as posters.
These posters are further incorporated into a mural, designed to suit the
upper gallery's character. In her text-based works, Lisa Torell comments on
current behaviour, fragments from the present that we ourselves take part of
and therefore, in equal parts, can easily identify, yet have difficulties to
oversee and obtain a better understanding of. Her graduating work of 2001,
Towards a more beautiful world - What do you mean, towards?!, functions as a
comment on labour market regulations in general, and the attitudes of the IT
world in particular. Camouflage - Terrors of Daily Life deals with moments
where a subtle despise of the surrounding towards certain professions - wich
traditionally are looked upon as being low status - reveal themselves. Lisa
Torell went to art school in Umea in 1996 Â 1999, and to University College
of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, in 1999 Â 2001. Her work can currently
be seen in the touring exhibition Allt hör ihop (Everything Belongs
Together), now at the Sundsvall Museum, as well as in the exhibition
Existens och Engagemang (Existence and Engagement) at Cityhuset in
Gubbängen.
Welcome!
Opening Wednesday 5 February, 5 - 8 pm
Artist talk Wednesday 26 February, 7 pm
For further information and press images, please contact Index.
Index' exhibition programme is managed by Andreas Gedin, Helena Holmberg,
Mats Stjernstedt and Niklas Ostholm.
Index- The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
S:t Paulsgatan 3, Box 151 52, 104 65 Stockholm
tel: 08-640 94 92, 08-640 60 69
öppet: tis- sön 12-16, ons 12-19