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Lea Porsager
E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP, April 29 - July 2, 2016

Lea Porsager: E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP

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  • Lea Porsager
    E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP

    April 29 – july 2, 2016
    Ny Carlsberg vej 68, Copenhagen

    Nils Stærk is pleased to announce Lea Porsager’s solo exhibition E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP, an assemblage of experiments, sculptural forms, 3D animation / video, foam, and tons of iron.

     

    E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP is a push-and-pull operation between weightlessness and gravity. Generated by mishaps, anesthetic-induced deliriums and unearthly synchronicities, E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ PRE-OP embodies an entanglement of Lee Lozano, Rudolf Steiner, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, the inner ear, slimy matter, and the initials ET.

     

    “ET disappe(ar)ed from the windowless Kingdom and slipped into Niels Bohr’s office down the street. Painfully uplifted, ET eased into the e(ar)theric slime-realm’s warm, wet wound. Busy tunnels, waxy labyrinths, hilarious mollusks, rubber-like and dull openings into systems stuffed with iridescent hairs, hammers and snails, colors of silvery white to pink, deep blue, green, purple.” *

     

    A complimentary exhibition, E(AR)THERIC SLIME ~ POST-OP, opens at Brandts13 in Odense on May 28, 2016.

     

    * Excerpt from work text

     

    Lea Porsager (b.1981, Frederikssund, Denmark) was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She received her MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. Porsager’s recent exhibitions include Göttingen Kunstverein (2015); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2015); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2013); The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2013). In 2014, Porsager was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Art Scholarship. In 2012, Porsager participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with the work Anatta Experiment. In 2015, Porsager was part of the 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms as Annie Besant’s “medium,” recreating watercolors from the book Thought-Forms(1905). Porsager became a Ph.D. fellow in Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy and Lund University in September 2015.

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  • Works
    • Lea Porsager Twenty-two Ground Protection Mats ~ ET #ET (printed text) Disrupted E(ar)thereal Fantasy (Ova Splash), 2016 22 iron ground protection mats, printed text
      Lea Porsager
      Twenty-two Ground Protection Mats ~ ET #ET (printed text) Disrupted E(ar)thereal Fantasy (Ova Splash), 2016
      22 iron ground protection mats, printed text
    • Lea Porsager Wax Slits ~ WarmWetWound, 2016 Wood, beeswax
      Lea Porsager
      Wax Slits ~ WarmWetWound, 2016
      Wood, beeswax
    • Lea Porsager Space-time Foam Fifty-six Mattresses ~ Space-time Foam Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle I, II, III) Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle I, II) Earplug I, II, III, 2016 56 painted foam mattresses, 7 sculptures in wood painted with metal paint. Printed text
      Lea Porsager
      Space-time Foam Fifty-six Mattresses ~ Space-time Foam Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle I, II, III) Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle I, II) Earplug I, II, III, 2016
      56 painted foam mattresses, 7 sculptures in wood painted with metal paint. Printed text
    • Lea Porsager #ET, 2016 Printed text
      Lea Porsager
      #ET, 2016
      Printed text
    • Lea Porsager Earplug II, Earplug III, 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Earplug II, Earplug III, 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle I), 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle I), 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle II), 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle II), 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle III), 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Organ of Balance (Left Ear Particle III), 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle I), 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle I), 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle II), 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Organ of Balance (Right Ear Particle II), 2016
      Wood, metal paint
    • Lea Porsager Earplug I, 2016 Wood, metal paint
      Lea Porsager
      Earplug I, 2016
      Wood, metal paint
  • Artist Biography
  • LEA PORSAGER Born in Frederikssund, DK, 1981 Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK Lea Porsager is an artist whose works...
    Photo: Petra Kleis

    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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