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’s practice fuses fabulation and speculation...
    Photo: Petra Kleis

    LEA PORSAGER

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

     

    Lea Porsager’s practice fuses fabulation and speculation across film, sculpture, photography, and text. Drawing on intersections of science, politics, feminism, and esotericism, her works often channel complex cosmologies into tactile, time-based forms. With a distinct interest in energy—both physical and metaphysical—Porsager constructs installations and narratives that challenge binary thinking and linear time, inviting viewers into fields of entangled meaning.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include NILS STÆRK, Copenhagen (2023); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2020–21); FuturDome, Milan (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (2019); and Brandts, Odense (2016). Her work has also been shown at Moco (Montpellier Contemporain), Montpellier; the Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux (CAPC), Bordeaux; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (ACG Buffalo), as well as at Göttingen Kunstverein; Overgaden, Copenhagen; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden; and the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York.

     

    Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with Anatta Experiment (2012) and in the 14th Istanbul Biennial: SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms (2015). She was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Scholarship in 2014 and received an Honorary Mention from CERN’s Collide International Award in 2018. Her large-scale earthwork and memorial Gravitational Ripples was inaugurated in 2018 in Stockholm, commemorating the Swedish victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

     

    She holds a PhD from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University (2021) and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2010.

     
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