During the inauguration of the exhibition Stockholm Cosmology at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm 4 paintings from the series El Mirage were moved and reconfigured in between other artworks present by different artists in different rooms.
Every day during summer 2024 the invigilators will move these paintings who will then act as intruders and actors in an interplay between viewer and viewed.
Below is an excerpt of this ongoing intervention.
But before any of this could happen we were installing
In November 2023 we installed the first iteration of The Eye of the Minotaur at Ronneby Konsthall, Sweden. Below are some pictures from that exhibition
The Eye of The Minotaur/ Minotaurens Öga
This exhibition consist of 9 paintings on wheels in coloured frames specifically made for this exhibition. This series of works titled El Mirage premiered at Participant Inc. NYC in 2015.
There are also three large works on restoration polyester included here approximately measuring 2x4 metres times 4. The titles of these three spacial paintings are The Flight of Icaros, Eye Candy for Andrew and The Serpent Bearer.
Installation documentation by photographer Anders Bergön
The Eye of the Minotaur
The Eye of the Minotaur- a performance experiment by Cara Tolmie and Martin Gustavsson during the opening of Gustavsson’s exhibition on 18th of November at Ronneby Konstcentrum.
9 paintings on wheels and 9 dancers will form a garden, a stage and a labyrinth which keeps transforming. A Minotaur and a trickster Muse are moving through this changing landscape. Looking for each other or laying traps for a meeting that cannot happen. Omitting otherworldly sounds to cajole or confuse each other, repeating a search that knows no reason. The 9 players will continually change the parameters of this labyrinth and the thread keeps getting lost. Something like a magical slow dance, it is an invitation to take a chance – which might be anyway ordinarily how we make sense (or make sense of this) and which, again, might employ systems similar to those that are at play in the work itself.
This film documentation was produced by Simone Aersoe for Konst i Blekinge