HJEMMEFRA (HOMEWARD UNBOUND)
Hjemmefra (Homeward unbound)
Text by Sanne Kofod Olsen
Text by Sanne Kofod Olsen (Danish)
Backroom
Anna Sørensen
The exhibition is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Visual Art
Duration
23.03. – 28.04.2007
Opening
23.03.2007, 5-8pm
Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents Mie Mørkeberg’s first solo exhibition HOMEWARD UNBOUND.
HOMEWARD UNBOUND is a psychological space, which is violent and smudged but not necessarily private. In Mørkeberg’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 Mørkeberg’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.
Mie Mørkeberg (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 Mørkeberg has recently been granted a workshop possibility at the estimated graphical workshop/gallery Edition Copenhagen.
