Past Exhibition
Chewing Gum That Never Loses Its Flavor
Jonas Holmer, Lisa Trogen Devgun, Tomas Sinkevičius, Viltė Bražiūnaitė
2 June 2017 – 2 July 2017
To just GTD, we depend on technology and machines to simplify our lives. We don't really see these products because we are so used to them.
In the show 'Chewing gum that never loses its flavor' Jonas Holmer, Lisa Trogen Devgun, Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė explore the aesthetics of these utility products that we are so used to. Many of them are base for Western society making a move from industrialization to this current service-based economy and where labor is automatized.
To just GTD, we depend on technology and machines to simplify our lives. We don't really see these products because we are so used to them.
We all know that the transition has had consequences. Fiction, where machines take control of earth and us and replace human work force, has circulated for the last 70 years or more. A complete takeover is something entrenched in our psyche.
To just GTD, we depend on technology and machines to simplify our lives. We don't really see these products because we are so used to them.
Still the objects in themselves mesmerize, as long as they are new and shiny of course. The term newtopia is a dominating mindset where we always are in search for something new and thrilling: gadgets, tv-shows, songs, clothes and people. We even search for the new in the past.
To just GTD, we depend on technology and machines to simplify our lives. We don't really see these products because we are so used to them.
Making art of the mechanic objects from our everyday life becomes a form of recycling. Recycling after recycling. Art is often defined as objects that have lost their use. We recycle to reuse, but at some point some objects lose their utility.
To just GTD, we depend on technology and machines to simplify our lives. We don't really see these products because we are so used to them.
– Alida Ivanov
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Jonas Holmer, born 1980 in Stockholm, lives and works in Stockholm. Studied Fine Art at Konstfack and received his MFA 2016. His artistic practice includes installations, sound, animation and video. In addition to his art-practice he makes music in projects like timbrogolem, carrie white dove and dolphins in heaven.
Recent exhibitions include:
Slow learner at Station Gallery, Offenbach (2017)
Self-harnessing Harness at Neu Now! Online (2016)
Almost there at Konstakademin Stipendiatutställning, Stockholm (2016)
http://jonasholmer.com
http://soundcloud.com/dolphinsinheaven
Lisa Trogen Devgun, born 1984 in Norrköping, lives and works in Stockholm. Received her BFA at Konstfack in 2015 and will begin her MFA studies at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in the fall of 2017.
Recent exhibitions include:
Standard Flow at H.Bergdal, Malmö (2016)
Refine All Pores at Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart (2016)
Swedish Art Now! at Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm (2016)
Friends in need at Carl Kostyál, Stockholm (2016)
Logistic Figures at Belenius/Nordenhake, Stockholm (2015)
http://lisatrogendevgun.com/
Tomas Sinkevičius, born 1991 in Birštonas, lives and works in Stockholm.
Viltė Bražiūnaitė, born 1991 in Vilnius, lives and works in Vienna. Studied together at the Vilnius Academy of Art, Sinkevičius received his MFA from Konstfack in 2016 and Bražiūnaitė graduates from MFA studies at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in 2017. Their practice could be summarized by a sense of uncanniness accompanying their works: precise 3D renders, videos and spatial installations. Faithful to the nature of digital media, they emphasize the open-source nature of their work, encouraging other practitioners to reuse and interpret it in their own creative process. By observing, looping or simply stripping down situations and characters, the duo creates open-ended narratives which circle around a core idea: vision, brilliance, longing or confusion.
Recent exhibitions include:
Posthuman Complicities at xhibit und Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (2017)
Body and Darkness at Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius (2017)
Shallow, Quick and Not Yet Titled. JCDecaux Award at Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2016)
http://tomassinkevicius.com
http://viltebraziunaite.com
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