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Curator-led walkthrough | For members

Kurator Owen Martin under omvisning i utstillingen Between Rivers. Foto: Helle Holm

Welcome to this tour of the exhibition with Owen Martin

Join curator Owen Martin on this tour of the exhibition Between Rivers.

For members and the tour is conducted in English. Limited capacity. Sign up.

The artists included in Between Rivers propose new ways of reading and imagining rivers. While many of the works are characterized by modes of expression that are particular to each artist’s practice—perhaps unsurprising given the challenge of representing a subject that is at once fixed and relentlessly in motion—they are nonetheless related by the image, process, or material of a river. 

Several of the works, including those by Zoe Leonard, Marjetica Potrč, and Thao Nguyen Phan, directly reference significant river systems. They examine the subject’s entanglement with territory and identity, resource extraction, and religious or folkloric symbols and narratives. Cato Løland and Senga Nengudi respond to rivers more obliquely. Its characteristics are a catalyst for the creation of new work, or a framing device to understand a practice differently. The histories of people and objects that have transited across these bodies of water, are present in the work of Alex Ayed, Anna Boghiguian, Reena Saini Kallat, and James Webb. The material of a river and what gathers next to it—its liquid body, the soil along its banks, and the plants that grow there—form the materials used in Delcy Morelos and Hicham Berrada’s installations. Lala Rukh’s drawings on photographic paper, which close the exhibition, distill an acute vision that is at once meditative and persistent—a vision that was never far from the complex social environment she inhabited and sought to change.

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Thao Nguyen Phan, First Rain, Brise Soleil, 2021 – 2022. Courtesy of Thao Nguyen Phan and Galerie Zink. Film still © Thao Nguyen Phan.
Exhibitions

Between Rivers

A flood is what flows says the etymology, where the flowing is in excess. But it is by flooding that a river constructs its form; form is the remnant of excess, the despair of content, the failure of escape. Riffles, pools, floodplains, meanderings constitute its geometry.

– from “A River” by Lisa Robertson*