“Re-Creation” is a group exhibit of photography and video works.
The exhibit is installed with a keen sense of site specificity in
mind. A constellation consisting of thirty-eight photographs are
strewn salon-style on one of the small gallery walls on the second
floor at POST. One discovers the wall in the seemingly empty gallery
only after turning around to leave. But then drawn in to examine
each image gazing into their Norwegian settings. The downstairs
spaces are treated with the same sensitivity. Allotted space for
each photograph in the large space is varied to echo or emphasize
their individuality while a small gallery is the projection room
for three videos.
The theme of “Re-Creation” as the exhibition statement suggests
addresses: “act of creating…/production of the human intelligence,
especially one in which imagination has a significant part.” This
project with its twenty-five participants started formation in September
of 2002 with the intent to create a story, a character/s, performing,
staging, documentation and representation. The resultant works address
identity and gender issues as alter egos come to life. There are
many noteworthy works, such as Kristine Aronsen, Jorgen Gomnaes,
Sturla Nilssen, Marit Sorlie and Silje Urbye.
On the opening evening, Norwegian performance and video artist,
Monica Emilie Herstad executed a version of her performance Comewhatmay.
She combines a mix of dance techniques with video and throbbing
trance sounds. This version of her performance made attempts to
close the gap between two and three dimensions. Her movements influenced
by classical ballet, modern and butoh become its own sample of order
and chaos. Herstad moved with simultaneity to the projected images
of herself performing, closing distance between cerebral and sensational.
Her decision for costume is to iterate couture critiquing the desire
and desired. Her choice to project onto the corrugated metal roll-up
door paralleled the sensitivity and installation site specificity
of “Re-Creation” at POST.
