Emelié Sterner
Stay, Illusion!
Exhibition and performance by Swedish artist Emelié Sterner
MLAG 15-17 November 2024
Performance program | Opening hours
15 november 19.30 | 18.00 - 21.00
16 november 14.00 | 13.00 - 16.00
17 november 14.00 | 13.00 - 16.00
In a performance astrology and conspiracy theories are fragmentarily woven together with Hamlet and composed anecdotes. This in a spatiality where glamping and prepper culture seeks affinity with each other.The exhibition Stay, Illusion! examines, with an ambiguous narrative, the concept of truth. With a focus on source criticism and passive/active stances, the ”search for the truth" is investigated through live performance and small installations that are all connected to water in different ways.Here the water as performative material becomes a temporary place for censorship.
It both acts as a free zone and a potential killer - for humans, the water is a temporary room as we cannot stay below the surface for too long. However, there was a time when that was considered a truth and drowned many women during the 17th century witch trials. What do relative truths look like today and what happens when they are perceived as absolute?
With ready mades composed in geometric formations, water and light, the exhibition touches thoughts around the capitalization of doom, forest bathing and how Mars affects politics when it goes retrograde.
Emelié Sterner (b.1986 in Umeå, Sweden) is an artist working with performance and installation. From a feminist perspective she is interested in spatial boundaries connected to cultural, social and trust capitals. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions and on performing art stages both nationally and internationally. This is her first exhibition in Norway.
Sterner holds a BFA in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand.The exhibition is supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Bergen Kommune.www.emeliesterner.com
@emelie.sternerThe exhibition is presented at the artist-run gallery MLAG, Mikey Laundry Art Garden
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