Luis Adelantado Valencia Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Ornamental Sleep, an interesting dialogue between the work of Norwegian artists Morten Slettemeås and Marius Engh, in which we can find some sculptural pieces and installations by Marius as well as the latest paintings by Slettemeås.
Their way of understanding and questioning the reality that surrounds them; as fragment, grid, enumeration, passage, is the starting point to understand their connection, beyond their geographical origin.
It can be said that these paintings are composed of successive covers. The mille-feuille resulting from this process is engraved and superimposed with archetypal representations, revealing in its own subtlety a latent abstraction.
Morten’s images are fractured through an intuitive painting process, mixed and reformulated around abstraction and the representation of a collective memory that revisits culture and nature. In a globally fragmented world, to build from what is left, to build from a quotation, from the historical possibility of today expressing itself poetically. To transfer the passages to another context.
On the other hand, Marius Engh presents two installations in which the everyday objects that we find will lead us to readings of different codes or communication systems as in the piece Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here where the quilts allude to the use made by black slaves before the American Civil War, to communicate with each other.
O en la pieza fotográfica Double Fantasy se alude a los macacos gibraltareños como los auténticos habitantes de la isla, en una llamada a la reflexión identitaria. Protagonista de algunos episodios como la boda de John Lennon y Yoko Ono en la isla.
En otra de sus instalaciones que ocupan toda una de las plantas de la galería, encontramos constelaciones formadas por los distintos medios que conforman un espacio que se aproxima a lo sagrado. Una proyección circular proyecta vívidos colores que se vierten en una habitación en penumbra. Inicialmente, el proyector se usa como instrumento terapéutico para aquellos que sufren un síndrome llamado Snoezelen