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Sensing something slimy under the shoes<\/strong>
\nAnja Carrs separatutst\u00e4llning p\u00e5 Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening inkluderar tv\u00e5 nya performativa installationer samt den p\u00e5g\u00e5ende fotoserien \u201cMoments (Act 1-13)\u201d. Serien utg\u00f6rs hittils av 13 fotografier, varje bild dokumenterar en performance utf\u00f6rd i teatrala intima rum och installationer. Centralt i Carrs konstn\u00e4rskap \u00e4r hennes handgjorda kostymer baserade p\u00e5 v\u00e4lk\u00e4nda leksaksfigurer som transformerats genom absurda, fr\u00e5nst\u00f6tande eller dystopiska handlingar. Verken f\u00f6ljer en (mar)dr\u00f6msaktig logik, utan klara gr\u00e4nser mellan k\u00f6n, kropp och objekt, djur eller m\u00e4nniska, barn eller vuxen.<\/p>\n

Fotoserien \u201cMoments (Act 1-13)\u201d visas h\u00e4r f\u00f6r f\u00f6rsta g\u00e5ng i sin helhet och bildar en cirkel runt betraktaren. Den linj\u00e4ra presentationen \u00f6ppnar f\u00f6r nya narrativa f\u00f6rbindelser mellan de olika perfomance som i fotografierna enbart kan l\u00e4sas som \u00f6gonblicksbilder ur skilda h\u00e4ndelsef\u00f6rlopp.<\/p>\n

Installationen \u201cSensing something slimy under the shoes\u201d (2016) visar ocks\u00e5 sp\u00e5r av handling fast i mer bokstavlig form. En p\u00e4lskl\u00e4dd \u201ctusenfoting\u201d med gympaskor i m\u00e4nsklig storlek, baserad p\u00e5 en leksak fr\u00e5n 80talet, har efterl\u00e4mnat ett sp\u00e5r av slem som avsl\u00f6jar dess r\u00f6relser i gallerirummet \u2013 precis som sniglar g\u00f6r n\u00e4r de l\u00e5ngsamt kryper fram. Carrs hybrid mellan snigel, m\u00e4nniska i tajta tr\u00e4ningsk\u00e4der och tusenfoting, har b\u00e5de armar och ben och kan p\u00e5minna om varelsen fr\u00e5n skr\u00e4ckfilmen \u201cThe Human Centipede (First Sequence)\u201d (2009). I filmen blir tre personer ihopsydda mun till anus och f\u00e5r d\u00e4rmed gemensamt matsm\u00e4ltningssystem. Referensen visar Carrs intresse f\u00f6r den franska filosofen Julia Kristevas begrepp \u201cabjektet\u201d: ting som varken kan defineras som objekt eller subjekt utan mitt emellan och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r verkar fr\u00e5nst\u00f6tande.<\/p>\n

V\u00e5rt behov att kategorisera och \u201cDas Unheimliche\u201d (det m\u00e4rkliga men igenk\u00e4nningsbara) \u00a0utforskas ytterligare i den andra installationen \u201cSpirit Talk\u201d (2016). Installationen best\u00e5r av tv\u00e5 kostymer som vidaref\u00f6rts till skulptur och ett sk. \u201cspirit board\u201d som anv\u00e4nts i en tidigare performance f\u00f6r att frammana pony-andar. Id\u00e9n om anden som frist\u00e5ende fr\u00e5n kroppen lever fortfarande kvar. Kanske \u00e4r det n\u00e5got i utst\u00e4llningen, som trots den intensiva paletten, inte \u00e4r synligt? Kostymerna, baserade p\u00e5 My Little Pony, har en yta av konstl\u00e4der vilken associerar till en mer vuxen fantasiv\u00e4rld. Det hudliknande tyget som inte l\u00e4ngre omsluter levande kroppar ger, liksom slemmet p\u00e5 golvet, en sondering av gr\u00e4nsen mellan kroppens insida och utsida. My Little Pony, en leksaksfigur som d\u00f6k upp p\u00e5 80talet t\u00e4nkt f\u00f6r sm\u00e5 flickor, har de senaste \u00e5ren p\u00e5 internet f\u00e5tt en utbredd anh\u00e4ngarskara av vuxna m\u00e4n.<\/p>\n

Anja Carr (f. 1985, Bergen) har nyligen visat live-performance p\u00e5 bl.a NOoSPHERE (New York City), Miami Performance International Festival \u201915 (Miami) och Le Ge\u0301ne\u0301rateur (Paris). Nyliga utst\u00e4llningar omfattar \u00a0LYNX (Oslo), POPPOSITIONS Art Fair (Brussel) och Tr\u00f8ndelag Senter for Samtidskunst (Trondheim). Ut\u00f6ver sin egen produktion driver Carr PINK CUBE i Oslo, ett rosa ust\u00e4llningsrum med kroppsv\u00e4tskor blandat i v\u00e4ggf\u00e4rgen, som hon startade 2011. Aktuellt under 2016 \u00e4r bl.a Carrs deltagande i grupputst\u00e4llningen \u201cParticle\u201d p\u00e5 Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), \u201cIdentita\u0308t von Mensch und Ort\u201d pa\u030a Landesbibliothek (Kiel), konstpublikationen \u201cVector #7\u201d som sl\u00e4pps p\u00e5 Entre\u0301e (Bergen), samt separatutst\u00e4llning pa\u030a the Agency gallery (London). Detta \u00e4r hennes f\u00f6rsta utst\u00e4llning i Sverige.<\/p>\n

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Utst\u00e4llningen genomf\u00f6rs med st\u00f6d fr\u00e5n Norges ambassad<\/p>\n

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Anja Carr (NO): Sensing something slimy under the shoes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anja Carr’s solo exhibition at Sk\u00e5nes Konstf\u00f6rening includes two new, performative installations and the ongoing photography-series \u201cMoments (Act 1-13)\u201d. The series contains 13 photographs so far – each of them documenting one performance conducted in theatrical, intimate rooms and installations. Through absurd, repulsive or dystopic actions Carr transforms well-known toy figures which are the starting point for her handmade costumes. The works follow a dream or nightmarish logic, without clear boundaries between genders, bodies or objects, animals or people, children or adults. For the first time the whole series will be shown together and form a circle around the viewers. This linear composition will open up for new narrative connections between the various performances, which in the photographs can only be read as moments from different actions.<\/p>\n

The installation \u201cSensing something slimy under the shoes\u201d (2016) displays traces of action or movement in a more literal way, based on a centipede toy with sneakers, from the 80s. This furry creature in human size has apparently left behind a trail of slime by its movements in the gallery space – as snails do when they are slowly creeping forward. Carrs hybrid of snail, man in clinging workout-tights, and centipede has both arms and legs and could resemble the creation in the horror film \u201cThe Human Centipede (First Sequence)\u201d (2009). In the film three people are sewn together with mouth connected to the anus and in this way receive a common digestive system. Referring to the movie, Carr takes her interest for the French philosopher Julia Kristeva’s notion of \u201cthe abject\u201d one step further: Things that we find repulsive because they can not be defined as an object or subject, but exists somewhere in between.<\/p>\n

Human need for categorization and \u201cThe Uncanny\u201d (the strangely familiar) are further explored in the second installation titled \u201cSpirit Talk\u201d (2016). It consists of two costumes converted into sculptures and a spirit board that was used in a previous performance to evoke pony spirits. The idea of the spirit detached from the body is still widespread today – maybe it is, despite an intense palette, something in this exhibition that is not visible? The two costumes, based on the 80s children’s toy My Little Pony – with their surface of artificial leather – hints to a fantasy world of a more adult kind. As the slime on the floor, the skin-like textile on these costumes \u2013 that no longer surround living bodies \u2013 are connected to the vulnerable borders between the inside and outside of our bodies. My Little Pony was originally intended as a toy for little girls, but has in recent years gained a widespread fan base among adult men on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Anja Carr (b.1985, Bergen) has recently shown live-performances at NOoSPHERE (New York City), Miami Performance International Festival ’15 (Miami) and Le G\u00e9n\u00e9rateur (Paris). Recent exhibitions include LYNX (Oslo), POPPOSITIONS Art Fair (Brussels) and Tr\u00f8ndelag Centre for Contemporary Art (Trondheim). In addition to her own production Carr runs PINK CUBE in Oslo; a pink exhibition space with body fluids in the wall paint, that she founded in January 2011. This year she will participate at the group exhibitions \u201cParticle\u201d at Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), \u201cIdentit\u00e4t von Mensch und Ort at Landesbibliothek\u201d (Kiel) among others, contribute to the art publication \u201cVector #7\u201d released at Entr\u00e9e (Bergen) and do a solo exhibition at the Agency gallery (London).
\nThis is her first exhibition in Sweden.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>The exhibition is kindly supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Sweden.<\/p>\n

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