'Weird Science', an exhibition about cultivation and a measurement of the distance between the rational education and its possible (irrational) uses, features several young Norwegian artists.
In the 1980s high-school movie, which the exhibition is titled after, two teenagers use their computer skills to create the woman of their dreams. This narrative has its roots back to the Greek legend of Pygmalion, best known through Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which a sculptor falls in love with the sculpture he has created. Pygmalion is a study of creation taking on a life of its own.
These unexpected outcomes form the central idea and inspiration for the exhibition. In Wild Child (Old School Remix), a 16mm film by Pedersen, Dolven Balke and Freuchen, a teacher gradually rediscovers his primitive drives and rituals parallel to his student's increasing cultivation. The social process is described as a game, constantly inscribed with new rules of engagement as it unfolds.
The exhibition features new works by Thora Dolven Balke, Jan Freuchen, Sverre Gullessen, Kristine Jakobsen, Linn Pedersen, Eirin Støen and Sveinung Unneland.
Weird Science
3 - 18 October
Waterside Project Space
44-48 Wharf Rd
London N1 7UX
By appointment only: pierre@petitpoi.net
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