Neon Dracula
Asbjørn Skou
06.01.2018 - 28.01.2018
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (installation view), 2018. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (installation view), 2018. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (installation view), 2018. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula, 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula, 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula, 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Metamorphosis 5, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Metamorphosis 4, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite and coloured pencil on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Metamorphosis 3, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Metamorphosis 2, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Metamorphosis 1, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Hungry hungry ghost, 2017, 30 x 42 cm, graphite on paper. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Heretical Soup, 2017, 135 x 185 cm, woven cotton. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: HelHest, 2017, 135 x 185 cm, woven cotton. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Divisions of Living and dead labour, 2017, 135 x 185 cm, woven cotton. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
Asbjørn Skou: Neon Dracula (detail), 2018, graphite on paper and graphite on wall. Foto: David Stjernholm.
PRESSEMEDDELELSE
Late capitalist society is haunted by a malicious spectre. It stalks the brightly lit halls of high finance, pulling packs of wolves & ashes from its toxic flesh.
This multiform shapeshifting horror consumes & devours and vomits up amputated bodies for work; where the dead employ the living, and humans turn into things.
Outside, it's night in the financial streets, and the claws claws claws are out.
The exhibition is a bastardization of Bram Stokers horror classic, reimagined as a graphic novel in an expanded field, consisting of drawings and woven tapestries.
These unfolds a neo-gothic tale of investment banks and real-estate speculation, monsters and surplus value, vampires, capital, and motorized undead labour, digesting the living as a necrotic metabolism.
About the artist:
Asbjørn Skou is a visual artist from Copenhagen, Denmark. He works with drawings, text, installation and objects, to stage and examine relations between human and nonhuman agencies, and their possibilities for production of crisis and critique. He holds a MFA from the Academy of Arts in Bremen, Germany. He has previously exhibited at among other; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art (DK), Kunsthal NORD (DK), Kunsthall Trondheim (NO), Tranen – Contemporary Art Centre (DK), Museum of Cycladic Art (GR) Vejle Art Museum (DK), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre (GR), Munch Gallery (USA) Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EST), Photographic Centre (DK) Rauma Art Museum (FL).
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