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Lea Porsager
SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight), August 18 - October 21, 2023

Lea Porsager: SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight)

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  • Lea Porsager
    SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight)

    August 18 – October 21, 2023
    Glentevej 49, Copenhagen

    SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight) marks Lea Porsager’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Lea Porsager is an artist whose works play out in the triangular tension between quantum physics, tantric practices, and feminist theory. Her practice interweaves speculation, fabulation and materialization within a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, text, and earth works.

     

    Since her last solo presentation in 2016, the artist’s list of institutional solo exhibitions includes Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2020-21; FuturDome, Milan, 2020; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2019; Brandts, Odense, 2016. During this period, Porsager also worked on several public commissions such as Gravitational Ripples, an earthwork and memorial in Stockholm inaugurated in 2018; KLIT, a shore biotope in Odense in 2021; Palm_Reading_Touch_Swipe at Prästängsskolan in Stångby in 2022; Repulsive Enchantment at Aarhus School of Architecture in 2021.

     

    In 2018, Porsager was selected as a CERN Honorary Mention for the Collide International Award. Porsager is currently working on a site-specific earthwork commissioned by Fuglsang Kunstmuseum. Porsager received her Ph.D. from Malmö Art Academy and Lund University in 2021, and is currently continuing her practice-based research through Mads Øvlisen Postdoc Fellowship with the project OUTRAGEOUS INTIMACY [Spooky Touch at a Distance], hosted by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Arts at CERN — the arts program at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva), for which she received an Honorary Mention for the Collide International Award in 2018.

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  • Works
    • Lea Porsager 9° Counterweights, twin pair W, 2023 Second/hand vermilion counterweights, engraved
      Lea Porsager
      9° Counterweights, twin pair W, 2023
      Second/hand vermilion counterweights, engraved
    • Lea Porsager 9° Counterweights, twin pair C, 2023 Second/hand blueish counterweights, engraved
      Lea Porsager
      9° Counterweights, twin pair C, 2023
      Second/hand blueish counterweights, engraved
    • Lea Porsager 9° Counterweights, twin pair O, 2023 Second/hand white and black counterweights, engraved
      Lea Porsager
      9° Counterweights, twin pair O, 2023
      Second/hand white and black counterweights, engraved
    • Lea Porsager Erasure Beds (+ drooping horns), 2023 Waterbeds for cows, horns, iron structure and rubber
      Lea Porsager
      Erasure Beds (+ drooping horns), 2023
      Waterbeds for cows, horns, iron structure and rubber
    • Lea Porsager WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Copenhagen], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Copenhagen], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Frankfurt], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Frankfurt], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager WP Clock (modified world-clock) [New York], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      WP Clock (modified world-clock) [New York], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Paris], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      WP Clock (modified world-clock) [Paris], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Copenhagen], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Copenhagen], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Frankfurt], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Frankfurt], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [New York], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [New York], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Paris], 2023 Metal, White Powder Coating
      Lea Porsager
      MD Clock (modified clock in profile) [Paris], 2023
      Metal, White Powder Coating
    • Lea Porsager DD Clock (dirty déjà vu), 2023 Silicone rubber with holes
      Lea Porsager
      DD Clock (dirty déjà vu), 2023
      Silicone rubber with holes
    • Lea Porsager Former Child, 2023 Pearls, quartz, wash bag, crystal ball in old DVD-holder
      Lea Porsager
      Former Child, 2023
      Pearls, quartz, wash bag, crystal ball in old DVD-holder
  • 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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