OPENING: Forgotten by ?

Schedule

Thu May 09 2024 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

Location

Collega | Copenhagen , SK

Welcome to the opening of ????????? ?? ? with Alice dos Reis, Vala T. Foltyn, ihsan saad ihsan tahir & Ala Savashevich

Chants and mythologies, or scenes from old TV shows, depicting rites of passage and collective milestones. In classrooms, at dinner tables. Stories that teach us how to behave, telling us to behave. Skillfully, we polish accents, amend postures: certain things must be learnt by heart, even if it hurts. But, despite it all, something urges us to beware of that which is meant to fit comfortably in our mouth. Along the way, we also learn to forget.

Collega presents ????????? ?? ?, a collaboration with Goyki 3 Art Inkubator. The four artists included in the exhibition engage with expressive traditions, crafts and knowledges deeply embedded in their own biographies. While they work across different techniques like metal weaving, witchcraft, embroidery and relief carving, their practices share a sense of insubordination. They turn a school lesson upside down. Archive magic objects. Capture a fleeting scene. Look back at a mountain charged with legends. Heartfully tensing the limits between remembrance and forgetfulness.

????????? ?? ? is curated by Jari Malta from Collega and Kasia Sobczak from Goyki 3 Art Inkubator.

EXHIBITION PERIOD: May 9- July 7

The exhibition is supported by Bikuben, The Danish Arts Foundation, Beckett-Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Rådet for Visuel Kunst and Det Obelske Familiefond.

Image: detail from Alice dos Reis' series ????????? (2023)
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Artist bios:
Alice dos Reis is an artist, filmmaker and researcher. She has exhibited, solo and in group, at the Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art (Porto), Canal Projects (NYC), Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), Gallerie D’Italia (Torino), among others. Her films have been shown at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), and others, as well as in various international film festivals. Recently Alice was a recipient of Fundacion Botin Visual Arts Grants (2022-2023), and previously, the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Young Artists (2020-2021). Alongside her work, Alice is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She also co-runs Pântano Books, an independent poetry press.

ihsan saad ihsan tahir (1995) currently studies his MFA at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, ihsan produces abstract and figurative forms that revolve around notions of class, cultural exchange, displacement and masculinity. His practice often examines narratives of migration, modern literature, personal histories and language, how we exchange these themes and how our relation to factuality is formed by those exchanges. ihsan’s work is at once unpolished and serene, mediating spaces and landscapes in a way that makes their limits hard to define – like cut out from their original surroundings, they now expand onto the walls and examine the levels of intimacy that exist in their spaces. The artist associates differing themes and subjects, plucking text and common icons to offer new connotations, countercultures and constitutive representations. ihsan attempts to reveal the ways in which we tend to accept existing portrayals and tropes in present-day.

Ala Savashevich (b. 1989, lives in Wrocław). She studied sculpture at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk and at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Ala is currently a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation and video. Ala’s work explores themes of collective memory and identity formation in societies with experience of authoritarianism and patriarchy. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms of socialisation into the role of women in family systems, education and through the gendered division of labour. By working through histories of exploitation and violence, she also visualises the prospects of reclaiming agency, solidarity and freedom.

Vala T. Foltyn is a performance and installation artist, queer witch, art researcher, and founder of the collective Lamella the house of queer arts in Kraków. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Artistic Research at Malmö Art Academy in 2022. She was a resident at the Art Hub Copenhagen in 2022 and as part of their residency program, she published her first book Szwedzka 8. She exhibited at Tallinn Art Hall and performed at the Parliament of Bodies by Paul Preciado at the Bergen Assembly and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In July 2022 she presented her installation performance in Nuremberg at the Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds.

Where is it happening?

Collega, Flensborggade 57, 1669 København V, Danmark,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Collega

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