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Fig.1
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Using the medium
of time, paint, sound and performance Aunstrup and Hafslund have
constructed a visceral piece that investigates the figurative and
conceptual relationship between the performing artist, the audience,
the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.? The
removal of the paint from the body acts on Michaelangelos notion
(originally noted by Alberti) that the art already exists and it
is the artists job to release it. The endless struggle of man, imprisoned
by matter, striving to attain ones unknown goal.? The line drawn
on the back is a continual and mirrored, this allows the aesthetic
engagement as the rorschach alleviates some of the philosophical
pressure placed upon the experience. It allows each viewer to witness
from within themselves how the piece exists- a woman/fox/cod head/deer/etc.
Sense that talks to the mind/soul dichotomy. It creates a scene
similar to that of an ethnical ritual, one we have never done but
invited to lose ourselves within. When making something we are looking
at something, when the landscape becomes the obstruction- the work
turning in on yourself. The mirroring is a play on reflection it
widens the torso and creates a tail, subhuman, frog like, using
the bodies epidermal reaction and the superficial layers of black
and white respond to the strokes of the tool creating line and tone,
the back becomes a protoplasmic sculpture/canvas initiating a primordial
and rhetoric piece.
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Natalie
Price-Hafslund (b.1987, Devon, UK) and Leonora Aunstrup
(b.1983, Copenhagen, DK) studied at Central St Martins School of Art
and Design, their collaboration involves Hafslund creating the visuals
and Aunstrup designing the sound pieces, investigating ideas that
reflect ones mental to the physical. Looking beyond the realms of
the conscious and playing with behaviour, landscapes, urges and visual
language; which result somewhere between the abstract and the figurative.
Recent exhibits
include 'Ghost in the Machine' at The Others, London, ‘I am
not a Poet’ at Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh UK and 'OK Flesh'
at The Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta.
They work between
London, Oslo and Copenhagen.
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