Lea Porsager: ATU XI "LUST"

  • Lea Porsager 
    ATU XI "LUST"

    March 29 – June 27, 2015
    MELLEMRUMMET, NY CARLSBERGVEJ 68, COPENHAGEN

    Nils Stærk is proud to present a new work by Danish artist Lea Porsager (b. 1981) in the second exhibition space of the gallery: Mellemrummet.

     

    The installation ATU XI "LUST" consists of 11 aligning struts horizontally extended in the room at various heights. Aligning struts are normally used in the construction industry to support vertical elements during the building process. In Porsager’s work the struts seem to expand the room. Porsager has used aligning struts in several other works such as Group Perfection, 2012 and Celestial Body – Disrupted Nerve Fluid and Crossed Shock Waves, 2011. These works are all connected through the common spatial resistance they convey. The title of the work is taken from the English occultist Aleister Crowley’s tarot deck. Only in Aleister’s tarot deck is the 11th card called “LUST”.

     

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    Porsager’s practice is based on research on different occult as well as scientific methods, which she combines in order to create her own speculative fabulating systems. Her works form new networks and connections between different theories and ideas in order to shape new possibilities of thinking. From June 5th to August 9th Lea Porsager’s solo exhibition SPIN Φ   will be on display at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. In November the exhibition travels on to Göttingen Kunstverein, where it will be presented together with older works.

     

    Lea Porsager is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Städelschule in Frankfurt, from where she graduated in 2010. In 2012 she participated in dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. In 2014 she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Scholarship. She has had solo exhibitions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo and Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen. 

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  • LEA PORSAGER Born in Frederikssund, DK, 1981 Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK Lea Porsager is an artist whose works...
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    LEA PORSAGER

    Born in Frederikssund, DK, 1981
    Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK

     

    Lea Porsager is an artist whose works play out in the triangular tension between quantum physics, tantric practices, and feminist theory. Working with industrial materials to display esoteric and often sexually charged themes. Her practice interweaves speculation, fabulation and materialization within a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, text, and earth works. Porsager graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2010. Porsager holds a PhD from the Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, 2021.
     
    Porsager’s practice interweaves fabulation and speculation with a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, photography, and text. Porsager was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 2023 and was selected as a CERN Honorary Mention for the Collide International Award in 2018. In 2012, Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with Anatta Experiment. Porsager's institutional solo exhibitions includes Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2020-21; FuturDome, Milan, 2020; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2019 and Brandts, Odense, 2016. Porsager has also created several public commissions such as Gravitational Ripples, an earthwork and memorial in Stockholm inaugurated in 2018 and KLIT, a shore biotope in Odense in 2021.
     
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