Asbjørn Skou “A Hole Through the Future”

Munch Gallery

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Munch Gallery presents A Hole Through the Future, a solo installation by Danish artist Asbjørn Skou.

The exhibition is about modern ruins – seen as process and object, allegory and dialectical image. Through series of collages, reproductions of scale models and architectural installation, ruins of built environment is exemplified as a metaphor, for broader political, aesthetic and philosophical questions. The exhibition is concerned with the ruin as architectonic condition, not necessarily as a fundamental “other” to architecture, but rather as a point of dissolution, where the object undergoes a shift in meaning. It is about ruins as spatial, temporal and social implosion. About the shock of vanishing materiality and the collapse of understood planning and order. It is about the ruin as a vessel for ideologies, and their collapse. It is about nostalgia, remains and reminders.

But it is also about choosing to see the margins of things, as a space with a radical potential for openness. One where the anchorage for our understanding of object, architecture and history is potentially shattered, and new explorations in perspective and meanings become possible. In this, the exhibition is built around a certain utopian ambiguity – it is about pasts that could have been, and futures that never came to be, but not as an inspiration for restorative nostalgia, rather as a point of departure, in seeing the ruin as crevice in history, through which it is possible to break into other presents and futures.

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Asbjørn Skou (born 1984) is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He works with collage, interventions and site-specific installations. His work is concerned with investigating the intersections between architecture, culture, power and memory. He attempts to navigate and negotiate the structures of both spaces and discourse, by exposing and circumventing their meanings and functions. His work is often documental, rooted in observation and intricate research, but he restates this research by assembling it in the fluctuating space between fact and fiction, thus creating new and ambiguous mythologies from concrete spatial and cultural constructions.

He graduated from the Academy of Art in Bremen, Germany. Simultaneously with working in public space, his art has also been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and the United States.

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Schedule

from October 25, 2013 to November 30, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-10-25 from 19:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Asbjørn Skou

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