HUMAN SITES sohn+isaksen

Rijeka. Power of Dreams
United in Diversity
Delta Lab 001, Rijeka Croatia
29.11.2019 – 10.01.2020

Three artists from Aarhus (Else Ploug Isaksen, Bodil Sohn and Kim Grønborg) and three artists from Rijeka (Petra Mrša, Dalibor Laginja and Igor Eškinja) belong to different generations, work in different media and are characterized by different registers of imagination.
What brings them together in this exhibition is the theme of the relationship between man and nature and its environment.

During a two weeks-residency in Rijeka, November 2019, HUMAN SITES sohn+isaksen has created the exhibition Rijeka. Power of Dreams. Photographs of places where ‘someone has been and something has happened’ are displayed with selected objects to uncover hidden dreams and connections.

Organizer of the programme is the Royal Danish Embassy in Zagreb in collaboration with Rijeka 2020, Sweet & Salt and DeltaLab (University of Rijeka). The program is a part of the project Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture.

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.

Støttet af Kulturudviklingspuljen, Aarhus Kommune