ART
Sofia Hultén / Wolfgang Plöger |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 02 February, 11:00Galerie Nelson Freeman, 75004 [map]Sofia Hultén / Wolfgang Plöger
Reconstruction, renovation and rearrangement are recurrent themes in
Sofia Hultén's work. The act of making, the materiality of the objects she chooses to work with, and their relationship with time are key. Hultén investigates cycles of transformation and change in the things around us through video, photography and sculpture.
For this exhibition, Sofia Hultén presents a new series of works of which further ideas and approaches Hultén has been working with in recent years. The new work If you want to hide a tree, go to the forest (2009) consists of many pieces of found wooden beading from a house renovation in Berlin, with new variations on the found pieces made by the artist and 'hidden' within the arrangement. Several pieces use found materials as a starting point for explorations of reconstruction, often using methods from crime scene investigations and furniture restoration to analyse the potential history of objects and materials.
Born in Sweden in 1972, Hultén, lives and works in Berlin.
Wolfgang Plöger's fascination is with the moving image, in particular 16 mm and Super8 film. Often making series of drawings, which are then animated and projected onto the gallery walls. But many of his projections become sculptural as he lets the filmstrips run between the floor and ceiling of the exhibition spaces. Beside the changing image sequences and the rattling of the projectors, long film loops cut hurriedly through the rooms. In this way the celluloid itself along with the projectors become an essential and sculptural element of the works.
In Paris the installation Keep going forward (2009) consisting of 3 Super8 film loops in different colors (blue/red/black) will be projected. These loops are made out of leader-material, an industrial product which usually indicates the beginning and end of a roll of film. On this material the artist has handwritten several quotes from 'last statements' given by death row prisoners before being executed. The quotes were published and found on the internet. As the film feeds through the projector, the film loops become moving strips of readable text filling the given space like a kinetic sculpture.
Wolfgang Plöger (born, 1971) lives and works in Berlin.
