ELINE MUGAAS – NØDVENDIGHETEN AV LEDDSETNINGER
2020-01-20Eline Mugaas collects. She collects her own and others’ pictures, or snippets of pictures in pictures, of the arms that carry, of the box that closes around things, the hands that embrace. A rotating gesture is central in this exhibition which includes the installation she made for the Lorck
Schive Art Prize at the Trondheim Art Museum in 2019. In a film from Brancusi’s studio, a woman dances on a low pedestal, twisting her body as she moves her arm over her head. The gesture reminded Mugaas of elements from art history, from the Caryatids, pillars shaped like women’s bodies carrying temples on their heads, or mourners from ancient jars that raise their arms over their heads to tear at their hair as an expression of grief, to the twisted female bodies in Matisse’s paintings. It also made her think of the movement when swinging an object up to your head in order to use the body’s vertical axis to carry the weight, or when lifting a child.
Opposite – Wheels on Wall, 2019
Exhibition runs through to March 8th, 2020
Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway
