I Mie Olise Kjærgaards udstilling NEGOTIATING POORLY WITH GRAVITY iscenesættes kroppen i en vedvarende tilstand af forhandling, fanget mellem bevægelse og sammenbrud, intention og konsekvens. Kjærgaard udfolder en billedverden, hvor ustabilitet ikke blot er en tilstand, men en aktiverende kraft, der fremkalder både følelsesmæssige og kognitive reaktioner hos beskueren.
På tværs af udstillingen fremstår figurer – menneskelige, hundeagtige, fugleagtige – underlagt en overdrevet tyngdekraft. Gæs og hunde bliver ekspressive agenter for alternative virkeligheder, deres kroppe fastholdt i øjeblikke, der svæver mellem fald og modstand. Disse forvrængninger signalerer ikke dysfunktion, men snarere en skærpet sensitivitet over for de kræfter, der binder al bevægelse: tyngdekraft og ubalance.
At falde fremad kan være at løbe. At bevæge sig er i sig selv at løbe en risiko. I denne forstand kan udstillingens titel forstås som både et bogstaveligt og et fænomenologisk udsagn: At forhandle med tyngdekraften er en grundlæggende betingelse for at være i live.
Som Kjærgaard antyder: “Uden tyngdekraft er der ingen risiko for at falde. Hvis der ikke er nogen risiko, mister friheden sin intensitet.” Inden for denne tankegang reducerer fraværet af risiko erfaringen. Handling bliver synonym med eksponering – en frivillig udsættelse for konsekvens.
At være og at handle er at omfavne tyngdekraften og den risiko, den indebærer.
[ENG, original tekst]
In Mie Olise Kjærgaard’s exhibition NEGOTIATING POORLY WITH GRAVITY, the body is staged in a continuous state of negotiation, caught between movement and collapse, intention and consequence. Kjærgaard unfolds a pictorial world in which instability is not merely a condition, but an activating force that generates both emotional and cognitive responses in the viewer.
Across the exhibition, figures - human, canine, avian - appear subjected to an exaggerated gravitational pull. Geese and dogs become expressive agents of alternative realities, their bodies suspended in moments that hover between falling and resisting. These distortions do not signal dysfunction, but rather an acute sensitivity to the forces that bind all movement: gravity and imbalance.
To fall forward can be to run. To move is inherently to risk. In this sense, the exhibition’s title can be understood as both a literal and phenomenological proposition: Negotiating with gravity is a fundamental condition of being alive. As Kjærgaard suggests, “Without gravity there is no risk of falling. If there is no risk, then freedom loses its intensity.” Within this proposition, the absence of risk diminishes experience. Action becomes synonymous with exposure, a voluntary exposure to consequence.
To be and to act is to embrace gravity, and the risk it entails.
Kilde:
Hans Alf Gallery
Hans Alf Gallery
