AiR 2021 Group Show

Moisture Technē

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Alena Alexandrova
Bob Bicknell-Knight
Gabriel Bott - Anderstedt
Jeroen Kortekaas
Faysal Mroueh
Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar
Mary Furniss
Joar Torbiörnsson
Giorgos Tsiongas

Hybrida AiR is a residency program that took place between the 24th of June and the 6th of August, 2021 featuring nine artists from five different European countries. We announced an open call for participation and selected seven participants whose works touch upon aspects of the virtual and the physical realities of life today. Hybrida AIR consisted of two consecutive phases taking place digitally and on location. (read more) (less)

Alena Alexandrova

Rising
sculpture, video, text

I will speak with the voice of others. At the end we all know. Yes, it is a“we.” We were affected and we understood. We have no name and we are many. We have a voice and we have a gesture. Ours is action because this is all there is left. It is our rising up as an affirmative gesture. We know about time. We know that time is no more. It is others that are still bound to time and will try to figure out our names, and will perpetually try to tell our story, in time, as a narrative. But we know that there are no narratives that can tie our experience because we are the naked protagonists. We are your worst pain and we are your desire. (read more) (less)

Bob Bicknell-Knight

Studio View
painting, sculpture and installation

Sat in front of a glowing screen, I crawl across the internet, saving and highlighting photographs of brightly lit artist studios. These images, featuring stern faced painters posing in front of colourful canvases, are destined to be altered and re-distributed across the web, channelled into an infinite scroll for the uninformed to mindlessly flick through on their way to the gym, or while ordering drinks at a bar. (read more) (less)

Gabriel Bott - Anderstedt

the weight of thousand bodies – all that crashed, the plants you had picked so attentively
installation, sound piece
(in collaboration with Alena Alexandrova and Giorgos Tsiongas)

Dear Gabriel,

At one point you would have to land, this is clear. You had to do so to avoid smashing into the ground. I could already sense it, though, you fall- ing from the sky; the impact. When one of your wings broke, I witnessed the transformation. (read more) (less)

Jeroen Kortekaas

Dialogue Between Two Signal Lights
installation

Signal lights are interlocutors in the space of industrial production. They direct the flow of goods in machine controlled paths. As a signalling device, their function is similar to traffic lights. They construct intricate paths of ordered interchange between key points. Signal lights are a figure of a networked and global world of structured movements. (read more) (less)

Faysal Mroueh

Tick Mummy
installation, virtual reality, text

The structure of the work is based on three routines relating to the tick: a parasitic arachnid which, due to its hemophagous diet, acts as a vector of many serious diseases affecting humans. By extension, the routines relate to forest biomes and the increase and mutations in tick-borne infections over time. (read more) (less)

Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjovar

Bonds
sculpture and installation

The subject of the holograms are bonds. Behind loans, insurance policies and tradable contracts, there is a bond that lies in a promise. Usually there is collateral, some kind of thing held hostage, in case of a failure to pay. The process is one of the abstraction of value that comes about with the growth of the financial sector into an industry that does not necessarily service the “real” economy, but rather dominates it. (read more) (less)

Mary Furniss

Appendix II
drawing, sculpture and installation

In the myth of Zelephos there are multiple interpretations of his process of transformation and how the first infernal apparition came to be. We resist one definitive interpretation, because it is believed to be the pursuit of one definitive truth that was a contributing catalyst towards the blackening of the green and the demise of the Anthropocene. (read more) (less)

Joar Torbiörnsson

Untitled
sculpture

“Dig where you stand” is a good motto, as unexpected things and memories emerge, while others dissolve at exposure to the winds. The work that I am making is inspired by the history of Älvsbacka, the place where I grew up. While organising the residency I saw it through a different lens, as a zone of creativity on several planes. (read more) (less)

Giorgos Tsiongas

apophenia
poetry, installation, and a sound piece by Alex Murray

/ throw 1
no sequencing
/ throw 2
reading & writing as a chance operation
/ throw 3
the body text to depend on transparencies (read more) (less)