The Lost Horse Gallery is pleased to present (made up and let down) an exhibition with Sofia Dahlgren (SWE), Line Ellegaard (DK), Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO), Malin Ståhl (SWE) and Anita Wernström (SWE) as part of Sequences Art Festival.
The exhibition is an intervention of Nordic artists living and working in London into the art scene of Reykjavik. Rather than making a traditional exhibition the artists aim at creating an ongoing process of exchange. This will be visualised in the installation of moving image works along with a program of new performance work made specifically for the context of the exhibition. All the artists engage with recorded and moving image, and thus this constitutes the point of departure for the process of the exhibition. The performance works created for Lost Horse Gallery draw on temporality, and staged reality found both in the industry of film and in art production.
The title of (made up and let down) propose an exploration into the artists and viewers ability for make-believe – as the artists ‘are making things up’ and perhaps being ‘made up’ – at the same time as it harbours the possible failure of a performance to actually make one believe. The scenario of ‘making up and letting down’ suggests that to be ‘let down’ (as audience, as artist) might expose how we are all ‘made up’ to be or do certain things in certain ways. At the same time a ‘letting down’ also suggest a ‘letting loose’ of those behavioral norms. Thus the exhibition aims at opening up an arena of possibilities: a situation where predictable encounters and expected outcomes are countered in the meeting between art and viewer, performer and audience.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue designed by Renée O’Drobinak of the Ladies of the Press* in the form of a magazine, suggesting a free and more creative engagement with the presentation of the artists and their work and with an introduction by Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Director of Listasafn Íslands.
There will be a seminar hosted by the artists at the Nordic House. Titled (made up and let down) the seminar will aim at exploring the seminar as a creative process, inviting the participants to activate the seminar as a forum for inclusiveness and discussion. Talks will be presented by the artists and by Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson.
