Mie Morkeberg
dal 22/4/2007 al 27/4/2007
Segnalato da
22/4/2007
Mie Morkeberg
Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen
In Morkeberg's new paintings and works on paper fragments from home and the domestic as setting is used in a presentation of recognizable but at the same time very unfamiliar objects and stories.
Homeward Unbound
Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents Mie Morkeberg's first solo exhibition.
Homeward Unbound is a psychological space, which is violent and smudged but not necessarily private. In Morkeberg's new paintings and works on paper fragments from home and the domestic as setting is used in a presentation of recognizable but at the same time very unfamiliar objects and stories.
The works are mostly figural but the narrative is not constructed around a traditional plot. Recognizing a chandelier, a rat, a living room, a kitchen or a landscape where a woman carries a child does not explain the parts of the works where black Indian ink covers faces or blotches of muddy acrylic runs across the canvas. Exactly against this background of blurred narratives the experience of something disquieting is crystal clear. This feeling is intensified by the dense visual expression, which Morkeberg's deliberate use and juxtaposition of a variety of painting and drawing techniques guaranties.
All though the disquieting works are highly subjective and lingers on the difficult boarder between conscious and unconscious something about them seems well known. Maybe because they on a general level show the uncanny mechanism: To recognize something as strange and disturbing because it unexpectedly takes place at home or in oneself.
Sanne Kofod Olsen, MA in Art History has written the text The expanse above and below - New Works by Mie Morkeberg, which is available both online and in the exhibition catalogue.
Mie Morkeberg (1980) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen) in 2006. Previous exhibitions count Produktion A-huset (2005), Tales From The Uncertain Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2006) and Fora – Other Tales From The Uncertain Randers Kunstmuseum (2007). Mie Morkeberg has recently been granted a workshop possibility at the estimated graphical workshop/gallery Edition Copenhagen.
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
Skindergade 5 - Copenhagen