silver spoon
Four Boxes Gallery presents silver spoon, an exhibition by the Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Through digitally and manually produced pieces, the exhibition calls attention to highly relevant questions of ownership.
The works of Sidsel Meineche Hansen provide a critical look at the present by exposing the absurdities of capitalist reality, often through a feminist lens.
In the exhibition at Four Boxes Gallery, Meineche Hansen hones in on questions of ownership, and what conditions grant the rights to own one’s own body, art, and home. Across three floors, a series of artworks shed light on the skewed and exclusionary conditions of class and sociopolitical circumstances.
The sculpture home vs owner 2 (chimney pots), 2023, takes the form of a life-sized chimney with pots, similar to those found on the rooftop of typical British working-class terraced housing. home vs owner 2 (chimney pots) is accompanied by another functional object, namely a spoon cast in silver. The title of the work, silver spoon, 2020, refers to the inherited privilege of being born with a silver spoon in the mouth.
The exhibition also presents two digital moving image pieces: The CGI-animated VR work No Right way 2 Cum, 2015, and the video work CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #2, 2016. In No Right Way 2 Cum the female avatar EVA v3.0, which Meineche Hansen has bought the rights to use, plays the lead role. Made in response to censorship law in the UK which prohibits the visual representation of female ejaculation in UK produced pornography, the avatar EVA v3.0 engages in explicit self-pleasure and squirting. CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #2 is cooperatively owned and produced by Nikita Gale, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Candice Lin, Nour Mobarak, Blaine O’Neill, and P Staff. This video is accompanied by the contract CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT LICENSE AGREEMENT, which challenges the assumptions around individual ownership that dominate both the art world and the broader political economy.
The exhibition is developed in partnership with gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Randers Tegl and municipality of Skive.
silver spoon is part of the exhibition series unboxing curated by Rebekka Laugesen
Four Boxes Gallery præsenterer udstillingen silver spoon af den danske kunstner Sidsel Meineche Hansen. Gennem digitalt og manuelt producerede værker, stiller udstillingen skarpt på spørgsmål om ejerskab.
Med et feministisk og antikapitalistisk blik, udstiller Meineche Hansen samfundets absurditeter. Udstillingen i Four Boxes Gallery retter fokus på spørgsmål om ejerskab og de konditioner, der dikterer, hvem der har ret til at eje sin egen krop, eje kunsten eller til at eje sit eget hjem.
Skulpturen, home vs owner 2 (chimney pots), 2023, der tager form som en legemsstor skorsten, fra et engelsk arbejderklassehjem, af røde mursten i forbandt, slår tonen an i den aktuelle udstilling. Som en del af værkserien home vs owner belyser den, den ejende klasse i forhold til resten. Skorstenen ledsages af et andet funktionelt objekt, den sølvstøbte ske silver spoon, 2020 der refererer til det gamle ordsprog: at være født med en sølvske i munden.
Udstillingen præsenterer også CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT, 2017, som er et kooperativt skabt og ejet videoværk, der udfordrer de antagelser om individuelt ejerskab, der hersker i både kunstverdenen og den bredere politiske økonomi. I No Right Way 2 Cum, 2015 performer den kvindelige avatar: EVA v3.0, som Meineche Hansen har købt rettighederne til, eksplicit nydelse i egen ret. Værket er en direkte kommentar til en censurlov i Storbritannien, som tillader visualisering af mandlig ejakulation, men forbyder visualisering af kvindelig ejakulation i britisk produceret pornografi.
Four Boxes Gallery er et udstillingssted på Krabbesholm Højskole. Udstillingen er blevet til i samarbejde med gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture.
Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Randers Tegl og Skive Kommune, Kultur- og Fritidsudvalget. silver spoon 10.02.2024 – 25.02.2024
silver spoon er en del af udstillingsrækken unboxing kurateret af Rebekka Laugesen
