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VIBEKE TANDBERG – TEAR FEAR REAR
6 March – 20 April 2008
Galleri MGM is pleased to present Vibeke Tandberg’s second solo exhibition in the gallery. The artist will show a 16 mm film and 11 photographs from 2008.
Tandberg’s 16 mm film ‘Script for a film’, is the starting point for the exhibition. The film is inspired by one sequence from Maya Deren’s film ‘At Land’ from 1944 that was never realized. The avant-garde filmmaker and feminist Deren was a key figure in the creation of a ‘New American Cinema’ that attempted to give motion pictures the status of a creative fine-art form.
‘Script for a film’ is created as a manuscript, written while the viewer contemplates the work. Words, written by an indecisive hand, replace images. The script can be considered as mental pictures or a form of visual and changeable prose. Compared to Maya Deren’s unrealized sequence from ‘At land’, Tandberg’s 16 mm film can too be seen as a film that was never filmed. The content of the words are inspired by the main character in Deren’s film, a women who is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey and has to struggle to maintain her own personal identity. There is an underlying paranoia described throughout the film, which is sought enforced in Tandberg’s manuscript.
The 16 mm film inspires the photographs in the exhibition. All, except one, are based on self-portraits were the artist is wearing a white dress, sneakers and a wig. She is posing on what appears to be a stage. Some of the photos are collages, which have been scanned and enlarged. Others are collages made directly onto the printed photograph.
At first glance, the formal qualities of the photographic body of works appear to imbed a superior and joining idea, and all of the works deal with the notion of being looked at. However, on closer inspection, each work represents an independent concept and needs to be contemplated independently.
In most of Tandberg’s photographic works, the notion and technique of collage is present. In this show she has once again confined herself to exploring the procedure on the computer instead of using the scissor, which has lately been included in her artistic production as a tool. Furthermore, she is once again returning to focusing on her own psycho-social relationship to the surrounding world. She uses the 16 mm film and photographs to deal with subjects such as identity and gender and their stereotyped reproduction in culture, ambitions or authority, repeatedly using herself as subject and model in the works.
Vibeke Tandberg, born in Oslo in 1967, studied at the College of Fine Arts in Bergen and at the School of Photography and Film at Göteburg University. Her work has been included in numerous international exhibitions. Recent shows include a solo exhibition at Lillehammer Art Museum in January 2007, which later went on display at Haugar Vestfold Art Museum. Tandberg is also represented by c/o Atle Gerhardsen and Klosterfelde in Berlin, Gio Marconi Galleri, Milan and Tomio Koyama, Tokyo. She is represented in several museums and international collections, and was recently acquired by Sammlung Goetz and The Guggenheim collection.
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Installation view
Installation view
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Untitled (Scull)
177 x 116 cm
B/W lightjet print, black marker, tape,
pigment print cut-out
2008
Unique
Untitled
121 x 177 cm
B/W Lightjet print
2008
Unique
Untitled
120 x 177 cm
B/W Lightjet print
2008
Unique
Untitled
42 x 60 cm
B/W pigment print
2008
Unique