25 April - 19 May 2025
Julia Selin’s works can be described as "night paintings": pieces that immerse themselves in a nocturnal state of mind and that lead into a physical, sensitive and emotional world. She utilizes bodily memories, how it feels to walk over a bog or through a dark forest or how the rain falls on her face. The idea of a tree, a skeleton or a ghost merged into some unclear creature appears in the work ‘Ghost loved by no one’. Her works suggest a view of life itself, from the smallest insignificant life forms and its movements to the endless depth of the universe. In the work ‘They come from the dark mud and they want it all soo bad’ a luminus line cuts the image in two halves. Around it the darkness is filled with movements, insects and their flight paths are omnipresent, as insects are drawn to the light for orientation. The line is also a art historical wink to Barnett Newman’s ‘Zip-paintings’.
Andreas Rasmussen’s new series of wood reliefs is based on an archive of visual fragments – advertising, news media, social platforms, and 3D models – digitally processed and CNC-milled into solid wood. The original meanings of the imagery are displaced and transformed, giving rise to new narratives situated in a tension between figuration and abstraction. The works reflect on a present where visual and media cultures merge into endless streams of images, and where meanings are continually reconstructed and distorted – not least in an era shaped by AI-generated imagery. Wood, as a material, anchors the works in a physical and historical dimension, recalling the transformation of image forms during the Reformation, when ecclesiastical reliefs were reworked to serve new ideological purposes. The reliefs explore the image’s capacity to mutate, perform, and assume new functions across shifting contexts.