Jóhan Martin Christiansen

Jeppe Sleeping

INFORMATION

Artist(s): Jóhan Martin Christiansen

Type: Exhibition

Location: Bonne Espérance

Dates: 22 Jun 2024 → 18 Aug 2024

Photographer: Malle Madsen

“Desire is ingrained in the history of lovers, and of bodies. To be honest, it was implicit also in the attempts of writing this text. The desire for this text to be; and also, to be about desire. But then, since everything – text, bodies… especially bodies, and also lovers – has been progressively thrown out there, given to the exteriority, including the often-autocratic public stage and consequential, unavoidable politicization, it became unclear: Does it still make sense to talk about desire? Not simply because it was turned – like so much of everything else – into a reduction, in form of either a product, a commodity, or one of those quantifying measures that sustain identities. Rather, the hesitancy with regard to the matter of desire came up due to another issue: the difficulty in finding, or recognizing, the remaining spaces of true intimacy.” https://bonneesperance.org/exhibitions/jeppe-sleeping/masa-tomsic

Author: Maša Tomšič