19 Jan 2025 → 2 Feb 2025
Readings
sunday d. 19. januar kl. 15
sunday d. 26. januar kl. 15
sunday d. 2. februar kl. 15
Open hours
saturday d. 1. februar kl. 13-17
sunday d. 26 januar kl. 13-17
sunday d. 2. februar kl. 13-17
Opening/vernissage:
31 Jan 2025, 17:00-19:00
ANA - Astrid Noacks Atelier
Rådmandsgade 34, Nørrebro N, 2200, Denmark
Admission:
Free
IMAGE
Top: Pia Rönicke, Bordered, digital film, 31.01 min, 2021 Below: Gitte Villesen, Wet Sand, (working title), 2024. Detail from “Floras forlis” (1882) by Ingeborg Madsen
TEXT
Dear Sebastian, Gitte, and Jytte,
I would like to invite you to participate in the exhibition ”On (again)” in connection with my screening of the film “Bordered” at Astrid Noack’s Atelier.
In conversations with you in various settings (at a pub, a celebration, or through a screen), it emerged that each of us was reading Solvej Balle’s ”On the Calculation of Volume”. These conversations revolved around crises—being stuck in the grind, Long COVID, exhaustion, the inability to make work—but also about how reading became a kind of way out. Still, it was surprising to realize how differently we approached the text, with disparate attentiveness and longings. Yet, it shouldn’t be startling that our reading reflects our lives and artistic practices. The repetition of November 18th, which forms the premise of Balle’s series, provides a framework that radically reshapes the world we inhabit—language, relationships, imprints, objects, actions, and our connection to history and the future—and, by extension, how it is possible to make art.
In the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, I filmed “Bordered”, which included scenes at Astrid Noack’s Atelier. In a state of suspension, as though hanging in mid-air, I had time to observe movements that are otherwise managed in a split second. This led me to think about patterns that might prevent a collapse. A system that does not accelerate its own destruction in the absence (or presence) of movement. The slumbering, like hibernation, halting the process of life as a form of preservation, is part of the balance I believe we have forgotten. But without a present future, daydreaming is also not possible.
In the film “Bordered”, a filmmaker attempts to trace Silvia’s steps in an unknown near future and past. Who is Silvia? What is Silvia? In a search for coexistence, Silvia bridges seemingly opposing worldviews: sequence and simultaneity. Silvia has left the narrative as a means to an end, as a counterbalance to a world that only obeys progression.
For me, reading “On the Calculation of Volume” is connected to the film through questions about how temporalities affect spaces and how mutations in time create mutations in matter. But from this perspective, do we also have the agency to reverse our own footprint if we enter into a different relationship with time itself?
It is this daydreaming I invite you to participate in, with a presence at Astrid Noack's Atelier between January 19th and February 2nd, 2025.
Warm greetings,
Pia
On (again) is an exhibition featuring Gitte Villesen, Pia Rönicke, Jytte Høy, and Sebastian Hedevang, with the reading of Solvej Balle’s seven-volume work On the Calculation of Volume serving as a conceptual framework. Through the exhibition, the space is transformed over the course of the exhibition period, engaging with a more open exhibition format. The exhibition takes shape through conversations, readings, and a presence in the space. The artists contribute singular works, fragments of works in progress, or works on their way to becoming more comprehensive.
BIO
Gitte Villesen: I developed my primarily filmic and photographic works as situational encounters with protagonists who are present not just through moving video footage, but also as important dialogue partners. My practice of telling and re-telling as forms of manifold montages of the encountered, the staged, and the archival is continued in my recent projects, but since 2016 extended through pervasive references to litterature often feminist science fiction (Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler und Suzette Haden Elgin)
Pia Rönicke: I work between text, objects, and film, with archives and everyday actions, between forests and other kinds of spaces to dissolve restricted notions. The connection between the free and equal is a continuous obsession, but also about articulating matters in frameworks that must be rediscovered.
Jytte Høy: My art is about ‘abstract space’ and the little things that nobody notices. Through simple actions and powerful concepts, I generate associations and relationships between everyday objects and mental images. I aim for ambiguous statements because the many layers of meaning open up great freedom of interpretation.
Sebastian Hedevang: Sebastian Hedevang: In recent years, my practice has been nourished by collaborations and self-organized collective processes in various constellations. Learning from The General Past (2023) with H. Heise, A. Rønholt Schmidt, J. Funder and M. Knudsen at La Cucina, Copenhagen, The Chocolate Wagon with Andreas Rønholt Schmidt i.a. with the exhibition Sludge Cake at ANA in 2021, as well as several works and projects with Mia Edelgart where children have been the primary audience.
Om (igen) is supported by the Danish Art Foundation.