´Mediators´ - group exhibition National Museum Warszawa, Poland.
    Vernissage: Thursday 20.05.10 time: 18.00

    I am showing 6 large scale photographs from the series ´The Inside Of The Outside Of the Inside´ at the National Museum in Warszawa. The exhibition takes place in an especially constructed venue in front of the museum consisting of over 20 transport containers. These containers resemble the motif in the photographs I will be showing. It is thus enhancing the site specific aspect of the very unusual venue and of my own work. The often unknown and mystical appearance of the outside world in the series, invites the viewer for a dialogue about what exists and what can exist beyond the inside, like a vision of the future. Some of the photographs are printed directly on acrylic sheets - thus appearing semi-transparent and increasing the idea of the border and the tension between the inside/outside and the tangible/non-tangible. This border shifts between being sharp and softer and less dominant. This wavering border corresponds with the dialogue between this new and ´foreign´ construction housing contemporary art and the old gigantic museum and its collection of older classic art.

    The trailers in this series have abandoned their role as mere transport vehicles. Their new function is similar to that of a microscope, in the way that it concentrates all the viewer's attention on the centre so that one only can see a very small fraction of what exists outside the trailer. These trailers do however differ very much from a microscope as the perception of the outside is distracted by the colors or reflections that is created by the inside walls of the trailers.

    My intention is to let the animal and people in some of the photographs break up the linear ´typological´ view. The animal affects this distance between the viewer and the landscape outside, not only as a physical obstacle, but also because the dog is a domesticated animal that is somehow caught in between nature and human. The human can be seen to be in a similar position because of the absence of clothes and other traces of traditional human culture.

    I am inspired by Doug Aitken's oeuvre and how he deals with the idea of perception and the division between man/nature/urban environment. The very strict photographic approach I have used is comparable to the typological working method. An interesting quality of this photographic methodology is that no matter what the motif is, the typology can function as a tool for examining and comparing the differences and similarities in ourselves. If we interpret this literally, then the contrast between the interior versus the exterior and the way the trailer frames our scope can be seen as a comparison to how human perception is constructed or 'colored' individually. As the animals and the humans in the trailers are looking back at us through the lens, it can be asked whether it is nature looking back at us or if we are looking back at our own being.

    The title is inspired from the title of a collection of poems by Peter Handke.


    The Inside Of The Outside Of The inside
    is dedicated to
    Jon Andreas Bjerk
    03.04.1975 - 24.12.2004