GRID SWAY SASHAY

A system – a waving motion – a gesture of intention. Grid, Sway, Sashay describes the transition from stagnation to action, from structure to deviation. As a musical composition making room for improvisation, or an actor responding spur-of-the-moment. Bending the frame without breaking it.

 

A strong light beams both onto and through Malling Mortensen's works of paper, that like portals control what is let through and what is held back, as a result becoming transformed from its original source. In the absence of light, shadows appear, gliding over Hviid's face-like figures. These stand, squinting their eyes, as if blinded by a sun that leaves black spots on the retina – spots that worm and twist their way across our inner gaze, beneath closed eyelids. Like a restless dance, or a dissolving score. As the viewer advances through the exhibition, they sense a narrative served in fragments.

 

The complete story is for oneself to figure out, through the meeting and interaction with this light-and-shadow play – seeing with alternately open and squinting eyes. One’s presence casts and breaks the shadows, leaving their marks in one moment before they vanish once again.

 

Text by curator Efrat Edelsten.

at Bricks Gallery.
With Mathias Malling Mortensen (wall-hung paper pieces).  
Tableau in the centre of the room is a collaborative piece.

2021.