ONTOTECH
SØREN ANDREASEN

May 23 - August 2, 2009

The room is dim and appears almost empty and compressed – and yet. With large abstract-formal wall paintings, video projections and systematically composed images the room is split into visual structures that can be experienced as systems in themselves and as a part of a dialogue taking place between the works.
Søren Andreasen works within a conceptual tradition, where a constant interplay occurs between idea and physical shape. Painting, video, sound and words are used actively at the exhibition and lead the way into the mental space opened up by the works.

The installation is a spatial staging filling out the whole lower floor in the Aarhus Art Building. As a visitor you enter into a complex room where your attention is drawn in different directions, and this is exactly Søren Andreasen’s intention: not to let the works form an overall unity. In this way he forces the visitors to try to create a whole that is not there, for it is precisely in our efforts to create coherence that the notion of something new can arise.

The exhibition is a manifestation of a critical interest in our existing society. Søren Andreasen treats the tendency to strive for a total organization and control of our reality with a critical eye, in particular our attempts to organize our world so that it works and is fit for the future. By presenting a room that is not controlled by the normal ways of thinking that mark our everyday life, the exhibition will sharpen the visitors’ ability to imagine new kinds of realities.

Søren Andreasen graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1994 and the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1995. He has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Denmark, Germany, England, France and Japan.