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Backdrop for absolute sovereignty
24.11.11-21.01.12
SOFT galleri Oslo
The installation Kulisse for absolutt suverenitet (Backdrop for absolute sovereignty) is an abstracted reproduction of the drapery in G.L. Berninis baroque sculptural portrait of Constantin the Great in the Scala Regia, St. Peters Basilica, Rome. The installation was juxtaposed to a photograph titled ...Hell, a photography of a 80s denim-jacket. The exhibition examining the symbolic meaning and expressions of textiles across times. The exhibition attempted to deconstruct of what Rosalind Krauss calls the monumental in our collective memory, in her infameous essay ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ (1979) and further ‘explored what Krauss calls ‘a particular place for a specific meaning/event, functioning in relation to the logic of representation and marking, mediating between actual site and representational sign’.