HUMAN SITES sohn+isaksen

The exhibition is specially made for the gallery Spanien 19C situated at the Aarhus Harbour.

Harbour. Power of Dreams – a photographic exhibition concerning the harbour as a site for dreamers.
Photos taken at the harbour and relating to sea journeys are shown as projections and digital prints in an installation with the gallery as a stage. Together with items on loan from Aarhus Søfartsmuseum various tableaux are made in a poetic and a dreamy atmosphere: The harbour where ships and distant horizons are calling.
Audiodesigner/musician Nicolas Vetterli has created a sound piece for the exhibition composed with sounds recorded at the Aarhus Harbour.

As an integrated part of the exhibition an Artists’ Book ‘TOMMY/S KAHYT’ / TOMMY/S CABIN was created. The book consists of photos, a sound piece by Nicolas Vetterli and a text by art critic Rikke Hansen.

Power of Dreams is a superior theme for a series of artworks, which take their starting point in the universe of dreams. They deal with what is secret and disquieting, with blockades and entrenchments. The idea of the project is to visualize the displacements between dream and reality, memory and oblivion. The title of the project refers to the energy that can be found in the dream world and in the images of the subconsciousness.

Billedkunstnerne Else Ploug Isaksen og Bodil Sohn har siden 2003 arbejdet sammen i duoen HUMAN SITES sohn+isaksen. Det fotografiske medie er valgt pga. dets høje grad af objektivitet, som muliggør en nedtoning af det individuelle, så Sohn og Isaksen i samarbejdet skaber et fælles, kunstnerisk udtryk. Gennem årene har de udviklet en kunstpraksis, hvor de med en legende tilgang udfordrer fotografiets todimensionalitet. Herved udfordres oplevelsen af den troværdige ’virkelighed’, som fotografiet umiddelbart er repræsentant for, og forskydes i nye retninger, så flertydige fortolkninger sættes i spil.

The exhibition was supported by Statens Kunstfonds Projektstøtteudvalg for Billedkunst and by Kulturudviklingspuljen, Aarhus Council