MORTEN ANDENÆS – CHILD SMILED. BLANK STARES.

Posted on 2021-10-18

Like much of his work over the past decade, the 25 new photographic works on display revolve around fundamental questions pertaining to picture-making. What role do images play in how we perceive the world and each other, and what possibilities do we have of transcending or seeing beyond these horizons?

Home and the immediate family is a recurring theme in Andenæs’ work. This initial world of ours around the kitchen table is a breeding ground for conflicting emotions and narratives that must be renegotiated and reevaluated in the course of a lifetime. For the child, distinctions between you and I, myth and reality or home and world are blurry, and the photographic juxtapositions in the exhibition mirror this fluidity.

In Andenæs´ work an array of conflicting narratives are in play. Each image is allowed room to mirror the complexity of experienced reality without reducing it to simple slogans or analysis. In the photographs on display, details from art history and popular culture seep into familiar tropes like still-life, landscape studies and family portraiture, whilst Andenæs’ representations of well-known animals and objects vacillate between a picture-book matter-of-factness and an altogether more ambiguous and anthropomorphic approach.

Opposite – From left to right, from right to wrong, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 13th, 2021

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

galleririis.com

  

DUNE

Posted on 2021-10-18

A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

In Theatres October 22nd, 2021

Dune

  

RON’S GONE WRONG

Posted on 2021-10-18

20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong” is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend out of the Box.” Ron’s hilarious malfunctions, set against the backdrop of the social media age, launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.

In Theatres October 22nd, 2021

rons-gone-wrong

  

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Posted on 2021-10-18

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine”.

In Theatres October 29th, 2021

www.searchlightpictures.com

  

SEPEHR – SURVIVALISM

Posted on 2021-10-18

Where do you start with a Moor Mother release? Any beginning square seems counterintuitive. Releases move all over the map, such that genre seems like a trivial question (poetry? Rap? Noise? Jazz?) and few releases, by MM or otherwise, are as cosmically-minded, comprehensive and downright challenging as Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Along with a group of compatriots which includes Pink Siifu, Lojii, Elucid and Orion Sun, the album is a traipse beyond the void, and beyond all memory of time before the void, a doomsday clock ticking the first second after the apocalypse.

shaytoonrecords.bandcamp.com

  

LUKE VIBERT – WGD 12001

Posted on 2021-10-18

We’re Going Deep is the work of Paul Wise, aka Placid – a DJ and collector since 1988, and founder of the popular Facebook community of the same name. For the label’s fifth release and the first of its singles series, he brings none other than acid royalty Luke Vibert into the fold. The A-side ‘Worward’ is a thirteen minute hardware jam, rotating around a 303 line which is endlessly and often subtly tweaked without losing its formidable step. ‘Dancehole’ takes this squelchy aesthetic deeper with atmospheric pad layers and a tunnelling bassline, with ‘Arsehall’ closing on pranged-out acid vibes.

weregoingdeep.bandcamp.com