Per Barclay will be showing a triptych produced at the Foundation Salomon in Alex, Haute-Savoie (French alps), a medieval castle recently renovated, combining old foundations with a contemporary structure (Chateau d’Arenthon, Alex, 2005). Since the late 80’s, the artist has been developing installations in which the floor of the space is covered with liquid expanse, most usually dark oil, creating a mirror-like surface. The surface acts like a revealing element, but also distorts the image and disorients the viewer, as it is not given where the reflection ends and the architecture begins. Barclay will also be showing one work from the La banque, Géneve series where the same technique applies.

Per Barclay (b.1955 in Oslo) lives and works in Paris and Turin. Educated in Oslo, he has lived abroad during most of his career. At present, his works are shown at Centre de Création Contemporaine in Tours, France. Simultaneously, he has created a new interactive installation for Le Musée Sérignan, Sérignan, France. In November, he will open an extensive solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy.

Benjamin A. Huseby will be showing three works from a larger series entitled The Fable Game where young men and birds of prey compose the recurring motif. The first piece of the series is a found and re-photographed image depicting the wildlife photographer Sverre M. Fjellstad and 8 youths, all listening to bird sounds and being educated in ornithology. The Fable Game no. 2 consists of two images mounted on brass, joined together crosswise, thus parting the images, but also transforming it into a sculpture reflecting the images in the brass surface. The last piece shows a hawk flying free in Florida; we only see the one wing contrasting with the blue sky. Although these images may seem to take totally different stands towards photography, they are clearly linked through their motives and they all share an attempt to force a logical confusion in the viewer, creating a third dimension through incisions or cuts. The entire series was published in Nesten! (Aschehoug 2005). It is the first time the work has been shown in a gallery context.

Benjamin A. Huseby (b.1978 in Oslo) lives and works in Berlin and London. Huseby is educated at The National Academy of Fine Arts (KHiO), Oslo, and Chelsea College of Art, London. After 10 years in London he is now based in Berlin. Huseby has exhibited widely internationally including shows at Kunstwerke, Berlin, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Fotogalleriet in Oslo. Huseby works with film, performance, text and sculpture, but his main focus remains on photography, with great emphasis on the installation.

Knut Åsdam will be showing two works from Blissed alongside one from Psychasthenia 10. The Blissed Photos are printed straight from 35mm motion picture film, a film in which four young people’s interaction within an urban environment is the point of departure. The photographs are key images from the project and emphasise the interplay between the friends, the singular characters and the environment, that move between alienation and immersion. The series consist of 7 images. Psychasthenia 10 # 17 is part of a series of 22 images depicting apartment buildings in different western cities at night time. The architecture and surroundings are blurred by the low lighting and the use of 35 mm photography. The buildings are presented without a singular social or economic context, and we are left to interpret them from our own projections of experience, fantasy or prejudice of the city.

Knut Åsdam (b.1968 in Trondheim) lives and works in Oslo. Educated at Goldsmiths College in London, the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, Åsdam has been active internationally for more than a decade with exhibitions, publications and broadcasts. He is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of Central England, Birmingham School of Art and Design, UK. Åsdam is currently producing a new work for Manifesta 7, opening in July and he will participate at ShangART, Shanghai, in October. He is also working on a new film commissioned by BFI, The British Film Institute, London and a film for Tate Modern, London, both to be screened in 2009.

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Per Barclay
Chateau d’Arenthon, Alex X
120 x 100 cm
Triptych
Digital print
2005
Ed. 5




Per Barclay
La banque, Geneve VII
200 x 160 cm
Digital print
2005
Ed. 5




Benjamin A. Huseby
The Fable Game 1
Silver gelatin print
52 x 98 cm
2004/ 2008
Ed. Unique




Benjamin A. Huseby
The Fable Game 1/2
C-type print, brass
45 x 30 x 30 cm
2004/ 2008
Ed. 3+1 AP




Benjamin A. Huseby
The Fable Game 2/2
C-type print, brass
45 x 30 x 30 cm
2004/ 2008
Ed. 3+1 AP




Benjamin A. Huseby
The Fable Game 3
C-type print, brass
100 x 70 cm
2004/ 2008
Ed. 3+1 AP




Knut Åsdam
Psychasthenia 10 # 17
Archival C-print on aluminium
125 x 189 cm
2000-2001
Ed. 3 + 1 AP

Knut Åsdam
Blissed #11
Archival C-print on aluminium
2005-2006
Ed. 3 + 1 AP

Knut Åsdam
Blissed #6
Archival C-print on aluminium
2005-2006
Ed. 3 + 1 AP