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SUPERFLEX
Like a Force of Nature, August 25 - October 16, 2021

SUPERFLEX: Like a Force of Nature

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  • SUPERFLEX
    Like a Force of Nature

    August 25 – October 16, 2021
    Glentevej 49, Copenhagen

    The exhibition Like a Force of Nature features two artworks that explore the almost ecstatic disorientation produced by the intricacy of the natural world and the dizzying economic systems that are rapidly altering that world in immeasurable ways. Today, when many rituals of surrender have been lost, surrendering to nature or economy can feel like a mystical experience, an encounter with the ungraspable.
     
    Like a Force of Nature is a sculpture based on the Fibonacci sequence, which is a mathematical formula that appears in many kinds of natural growth, from sunflower seeds to tree branches to fish skin colorations. In around 300 BCE, Indian mathematicians first discovered this recurring sequence of numbers in Sanskrit poetry. It was later introduced to Western Europe by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Nearly psychedelic in its spiraling complexity, the formula functions as one of nature’s blueprints for expansion. The sculptures in Like a Force of Nature are lined with ceramic tiles in colors taken from global banknotes, arranged in patterns inspired by the sequence. These patterns look like they could be multiplied indefinitely, becoming infinitely more complex. Similarly, the swirling arrangement of the sculpture’s seven walls are based on the spiral of the golden ratio, which expands exponentially: if there were six more walls, the space between them would be the size of a football field, and if there were twenty more, there would be 100 kilometers between them. The expansive form of this spiral, along with the flickering order of the tiles, evokes the illusion that money is as natural as a volcano or tsunami, like a force of nature.
     
    Investment Bank Flowerpots are models of the corporate headquarters of some of the world's largest investment banks, including Deutsche Bank, CitiGroup, and JPMorgan Chase. Each model serves as a flower pot for hallucinogenic plants. The euphoric effects of the plants are reminiscent of the effects of monetary transactions: the plants’ pharmaceutical capacity is determined by the wild math of nature, just as the global economy is shaped by the delirious power of the unbridled free market.
     
    Like a Force of Nature was created in collaboration with Esrawe Studio and Rasmus Koch Studio. 
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  • Works
    • SUPERFLEX Investment Bank Flowerpots /Citigroup (Aconitum carmichaeli), 2019 Glazed ceramic and plant
      SUPERFLEX
      Investment Bank Flowerpots /Citigroup (Aconitum carmichaeli), 2019
      Glazed ceramic and plant
    • SUPERFLEX Investment Bank Flowerpots /Deutsche Bank (Cannabis sativa), 2021 Glazed ceramic and plant
      SUPERFLEX
      Investment Bank Flowerpots /Deutsche Bank (Cannabis sativa), 2021
      Glazed ceramic and plant
    • SUPERFLEX Like A Force of Nature, 2021 Ceramic glazed tiles on drywall system
      SUPERFLEX
      Like A Force of Nature, 2021
      Ceramic glazed tiles on drywall system
  • Artist Biography
  • SUPERFLEX Founded, 1993 by Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen (b. 1969), Jakob Fenger (b. 1968), & Rasmus Nielsen (b. 1969). Based in...

    SUPERFLEX

    Founded, 1993 by Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen (b. 1969), Jakob Fenger (b. 1968), & Rasmus Nielsen (b. 1969). 

    Based in Copenhagen, DK

     

    SUPERFLEX is an expanding collective of humans and non-humans working with an expanding idea of art, seeking  to apply the agency of the artist to all beings, by all mediums necessary. They practice practices art as a human activity aiming to embrace non-human perspectives and move society towards interspecies thinking and living, beyond the end of the world as we know it.

     

    SUPERFLEX studio is today composed of members from very diverse backgrounds. As an expanding collective, they facilitates and urges the collaboration of others, bringing participation to the extreme. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish. In a 30 year span, they have made energy systems challenging the powers that be, paintings portraying a hallucinatory economy, toilets as structures of power, sculptures as fish penthouses, three-seater swings to celebrate collectivity, beverages to refresh the idea of self-organisation, lamps igniting the discussion of copyright and contracts to explore the possibilities of prohibition. Artworks emerged as open-source beer, hypnosis sessions, plant nurseries and tapestries. Media has followed ideas.

     

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