Duo exhibition with Thyra Dragseth at Ostra, Lisbon (PT)
July 2024
Produced by Bartolomeu Santos
Photos by Samuel Duarte
Supported by the Danish Art Foundation, Arts and Culture Norway and the Danish Art Workshops
Curtain, 2024, steel, steel wire, glass marbles
Untitled (unwinding), 2023, steel
Untitled (winding), 2023, steel
Mirror, 2024, mirrors
Marbles (Pool), 2024, 6:40 min, Full HD 16:9
Marbles (Bedroom), 2024, 12:15 min, Full HD 16:9
Marbles (Kitchen), 2024, 16:47 min, Full HD 16:9
Marbles (Garden), 14:20 min, Full HD 16:9
Marbles (Loop), 50:24 min, Stereo
Tape, 2024, inkjet print
Sink, 2024, inkjet print
Birthday Cake, 2024, inkjet print
A Handful of Marbles, 2024, glass marbles, UV-glue
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MARBLES is the result of a longterm collaboration between the artists Thyra Dragseth and Sofie Amalie Andersen. Presented for the first time at OSTRA, the exhibition contains a series of cinematic chapters circulating around the conflicts and frustration of a love relationship. The oscillating scenes are immersed into a fragmented installation with small glass balls known as ‘marbles’ as the obviously central object. The installation in turn withdraw and connects us to the action taking place on screen, allowing us to think about our own perspective and sense of (material) understanding. Letting their artistic practices meet, merge and mix, the two artists depart from their common interest of drama – that constant question of “what’s at stake” in our daily lives. Investigating the notion of tension, of emergency and inherent human violence – but also the passion and desire that moves and directs us – Marbles poses a fundamental relationship question: how to live within it, and how to live without it.
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SOFIE AMALIE ANDERSEN + THYRA DRAGSETH
produced by Bartolomeu Santos for Ostra
supported by Danish Art Foundation, The Danish Art Workshops, Arts and Culture Norway