Mie Olise Kjærgaard: The Dreadful Sound when the Fish went Fishing, 2009. Installationsview.

The dreadful sound when the fish went fishing - Mie Olise Kjærgaard's first solo show in Germany - invites you to the cold and lifeless regions of the Arctic Circle. The place evokes a feeling of: “They came, they saw, they conquered” - and was concured one might add – revealling a subtle fatale undertone. Left of the old fisherman's town is only shattered houses, a fish factory, old boats. Kjærgaard's work inhabits these constructions, build upon their remains and infuse sound on what was once new. Big scale paintings in acrylic, their drips and splatters seeming to liquefy the solid, are accompanied by architectural structures standing on the limb of transformation. As if emerging from a sunken depth.

At first glance, Kjærgaard’s fascination with ruins takes on the pathos of the nostalgic look into the past, but in truth her buildings and urban spaces are much more than that. They give us the dizzying upwards perspective of a child, a notion of space in flux. Kjærgaard’s installations and paintings act as transistion doors for our imagination to enter – for a moment we can all take the trip through the hole that led Alice into a land of Wonder.

The Dreadful Sound when the Fish went Fishing continues Kjærgaard's investigation of fallen utopias and like most of her work, the exhibition should be seen as a series of unpredictable openings from the past into the future. When you are near the Arctic Circle everything is a machine. Nothing is present unless it is necessary.

02. maj - 02. juni 2009

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