Stine Deja // Hard core, soft bodies
06.12.2018 — 16.12.2018
OPENING Thursday, December 6, from 4-10 pm!!
Schimmel Projects- Art Centre Dresden is proud to present the new solo show „Hard core, soft bodies“ by the danish artist Stine Deja.
Hard core, soft bodies is a collection of videos that reimagine the human form. The 3D hybrid beings, constructed of biological organs and technological prosthetics, stand in a literal ‘grey area’ making familiar sounds and subtle movements. There is an undeniable bizarreness to imagining the inner-workings of our biological bodies, but when cleaned up and stripped of the ‘mess’ a digestive tract earns the same elegance as a single unoccupied contact lens. The work serves as a tribute to the intricate and phenomenal natural human body and the possibility for technology to further expand it’s potential. This futuristic re-imagining of bodies draws on one of Deja’s key questions: what does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence and the technological takeover?
For this exhibition Stine Deja will create a site-specific environment around the pieces. Six tons of gravel will be installed to extract the grey zone narrative into the physical space and minimise the boundaries between the screen and the viewer. A unique ecosystem exists in the gallery: the natural floor makes the environment feel both inside and outside, while the smoke instates an unconscious mystery in the space by drawing on recurring sci-fi tropes. The viewer is forced to feel they have slipped into another reality, where even the view from the windows to the ‘outside world’ is no longer as expected.
Stine Deja (1986, Denmark) received her MA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015 and has since shown her work in various places, most recently: Annka Kultys Gallery (London), UNIT 110 (New York) and SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen). In January she will begin her three-month residency for ‘Future human’ at SPACE, London.
We Kindly thank Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden, The Danish Arts Foundation, Studentenwerk Dresden, Freundeskreis der HfBK Dresden & Netzwerk Kreativ for supporting the exhibition.
Exhibition duration: December 6 - December 16, 2018
Opening hours: Thursday-Sunday, 14:00-17:00
Schimmel Projects - Art Centre Dresden
Großenhainer Straße 61 - 63, 01127 Dresden
www.schimmelprojects.com
Schimmel Projects- Art Centre Dresden is proud to present the new solo show „Hard core, soft bodies“ by the danish artist Stine Deja.
Hard core, soft bodies is a collection of videos that reimagine the human form. The 3D hybrid beings, constructed of biological organs and technological prosthetics, stand in a literal ‘grey area’ making familiar sounds and subtle movements. There is an undeniable bizarreness to imagining the inner-workings of our biological bodies, but when cleaned up and stripped of the ‘mess’ a digestive tract earns the same elegance as a single unoccupied contact lens. The work serves as a tribute to the intricate and phenomenal natural human body and the possibility for technology to further expand it’s potential. This futuristic re-imagining of bodies draws on one of Deja’s key questions: what does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence and the technological takeover?
For this exhibition Stine Deja will create a site-specific environment around the pieces. Six tons of gravel will be installed to extract the grey zone narrative into the physical space and minimise the boundaries between the screen and the viewer. A unique ecosystem exists in the gallery: the natural floor makes the environment feel both inside and outside, while the smoke instates an unconscious mystery in the space by drawing on recurring sci-fi tropes. The viewer is forced to feel they have slipped into another reality, where even the view from the windows to the ‘outside world’ is no longer as expected.
Stine Deja (1986, Denmark) received her MA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015 and has since shown her work in various places, most recently: Annka Kultys Gallery (London), UNIT 110 (New York) and SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen). In January she will begin her three-month residency for ‘Future human’ at SPACE, London.
We Kindly thank Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden, The Danish Arts Foundation, Studentenwerk Dresden, Freundeskreis der HfBK Dresden & Netzwerk Kreativ for supporting the exhibition.
Exhibition duration: December 6 - December 16, 2018
Opening hours: Thursday-Sunday, 14:00-17:00
Schimmel Projects - Art Centre Dresden
Großenhainer Straße 61 - 63, 01127 Dresden
www.schimmelprojects.com
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