I Am Human And I Need To Be Loved

Friday, August 22
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations are recommended

I Am Human And I Need To Be Loved is a group exhibition with five young norwegian artists: Tor Jørgen van Eijk, Monica Winther, Jon Løvøen, Ingvild Brekke Myklebust and Kristian Skylstad. The exhibition will present works categorized as self portraits. Dealing with the issues of representation of the self; Creating myths about the artist, or in relation to the postmodern (referential) subject. Curated by Ruth Hege Halstensen.

I Am Human And I Need To Be Loved is a reference to The Smiths, and a title chosen in an attempt to encompass a current trend on the Norwegian artscene. Departing from the 90s irony and theorizing about art, new works show heartfelt attempts where the artist reveal her bio as material – stripped of cynisism. In the norwegian media, emo conseptualism has become a term. In my view, this tendency have clear parallels to the non compromising and blackened aesthetics familiar from the norwegian black metal scene. So, as curator, I focus on some parallels between norwegian contemporary art scene and the genre of black metal. I Am Human Need To Be Loved attemps to open up for new interpretations and to challenge the categories of both the self portrait and the non compromising black aesthetics.

Deathication (2007) by Kristian Skylstad
Deathication is the journal of a young western male, trying to cope with the distanced fact of death in his own life, intoxicated on a deserted island in Indonesia.

My everyday piracy (2008) by Ingvild Brekke Myklebus
”The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates.” - Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces, Heterotopia, 1967.

Selfportrait (1999) by Tor Jørgen van Eijk
A conceived idea must be realized regardless of the physical or psychical obstacles wich separates the idea from the completed work.

Helgekjør (2002) Jon Løvøen
Løvøen did a grand scale talkshow production staging himself as the host of the evenings interviews with intellectuals.

Don't look in the mirror (to long) (2008) Monica Winther
Demons are for ever...There are demons inside of you screaming to get out, fighting against who you are. Trying to pretend that they understand your mind. Fooling you into beliving that there is something wrong with your soul, with your mind.