Still life with modern guilt
Made in collaboration with Lutz-Rainer Müller.
Opening reception at MOT International in London, Thursday 23 September 6.30-8.30pm
Curated by Wiebke Gronemeyer
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Stian Ådlandsvik (N) & Lutz-Rainer Müller (G) work collaboratively since 2006 on various occasions while also pursuing their individual practices concurrently. Their collaborative work process often originates in particular situations or contexts that they either create for themselves or upon which they react. For their exhibition at MOT International curator Wiebke Gronemeyer has asked them to investigate the idea of collaboration itself. In response to this invitation the artists developed a conceptual framework in which their methods and mechanisms of collaboration are tested in relation to their individual practices.
Coming to terms with this involves the seemingly paradoxical plan to defer the decision-making process in favour of an exhibition based on a fortune teller’s vision and medical technology. CT-Scans of Lutz-Rainer Müller’s left arm and Stian Ådlansvik’s right arm were made to produce duplicates of the respective bones in their arms cast in Polyamide. Over the summer the bone-duplicates travelled to MOT International in purpose-built briefcases where they have been examined and interpreted by a London-based fortune teller who articulated his vision for their next exhibition.
The new series of works that Stian Ådlandsvik and Lutz-Rainer Müller are presenting at MOT International deals with the predictions the artists were given by the clairvoyant, as well as it manifests their very own means of collaboration and its evolving nature in communication.
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