The project Evil Interiors is a reconstruction of environments of concentrated fear and violence from well known movies like the home in A Clockwork Orange, the motel room in Psycho, the storage in Reservoir Dogs and the hotel room in Scarface.
Evil Interiors
We are proud to present a new series of works by Palle Torsson in his second
solo show at the gallery.
The project Evil Interiors is a reconstruction of environments of
concentrated fear and violence from well known movies like the home in A
Clockwork Orange, the motel room in Psycho, the storage in Reservoir Dogs
and the hotel room in Scarface.
Working with stills from the movie the artist has estimated the architecture
and created textures in the computer in order to reconstruct the interior.
The reconstruction is created in the first person shooter game Unreal
Tournament 2003. The project has resulted in large sized photos.
As in his earlier works such as Minus Porn, Sam and Pippi Examples, Palle
Torsson's interest lies in the scene  constituted here by the viewer and
the interior. Examples of scenes are movies, computer games or even a
Sunday dinner with your family. A scene is a limited piece of the world, one
you have to enter with faith and acceptance, otherwise the theatrical
disappears and the scene loses its meaning. Then we will only see boring
graphics instead of a game or we will see the violence without the context.
The scene demands the viewer's submission and in
Evil Interiors the viewer's position is changed through the reduced scene.
Palle Torsson, born 1970, lives and works in Stockholm. His works have
recently been seen in shows such as Tokyo Games at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
and Connivence at the Biennale de Lyon. The game piece Museum Meltdown, a
collaboration with Tobias Bernstrup, will be shown at Kunsthalle Wien in May
this year.
The exhibition opens Thursday Feb 20, between 5 and 8 pm. The gallery is
open Tuesday-Friday 11-5 pm and Saturday 12-5 pm. For further information or
visuals, please contact the gallery.
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Markvardsgatan 2
S-113 53 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46 8 612 00 75
fax: +46 8 612 00 76