Layers of Space

Aage Langhelle´s photographic installation does not only document the variety of birdhouses, water bowls for dogs or things that have been placed on the street to take away for free, but examines the owners creative ways of communication in the urban space. The invisible is made visible. The intervention in the public space turns into an identification mark but also into objects to dispute on.

The Installation was part of a Groupexhibition in Christianssands Artsociety october 2011:

between appropriation and interventions
realities - conditions - standards - positions - transformation

Participating artists: Isabelle Arthuis (BE/FR), Sebastian Denz (DE), Larissa Fassler (CAN), Philipp Fürhofer (DE), Eva Grubinger (A), Mattias Härenstam (SE), Moritz Hirsch (DE), Carsten Höller (DE), Noel Jabbour (PS), Christina Kubisch (DE), Aage Langhelle (NO), Jannicke Låker (NO), Nina Mücke (DE), Andreas Sell (DE), Grazia Toderi (IT) Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (RO), Corinne Vermeulen (NL/USA)

What does it imply to appropriate something? How relevant are not only public spaces but also social and cultural spaces? In which manner the processes of appropriation occur and how important are perceptions, actions or interpretations in this connection? The imposed and the newly created conditions are forming a platform or rather an area of conflict with different interactions. The exhibition space between appropriation and interventions and the invited artists not simply intend to arrange this room with art but also like to examine the overall relation between what is predetermined and what can be shaped.

The contrasting works in the exhibition highlight a wide range of artistic positions which, based on an interdisciplinary discourse, may illustrate the familiar in a different way and encourage the viewer to think beyond the existing.

Curated by Harald Theiss

www.haraldtheiss.de

Art Critic in Ferdelandsvennen as PDF (NO)