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tove storch
UNTITLED, 2009
- Cloth, silicone, metal, variable dimensions
Tove Storch’s artistic production occupies the field of kinetic sculpture, often with an added element of subtle mystery. In an investigation of the potential for cognition offered by the faculty of sight and the human body, she experiments with the qualities of the materials used and with the basic premises for sculptural production.
The work consists of five black display cases created on-site specifically for the room at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and the daylight there. The cases consist of thin, semi-transparent fabric covered lightly with silicone and stretched onto delicate metal frames. Outlines and dark shadows reveal the presence of objects hidden behind the surface of the display cases, like suggestions of a secret life. At first glance the cases seem static, but upon closer inspection the veiled objects start moving and changing as the daylight changes and as the audiences moves in and around the work. Still, what seems at first to be recognisable remains abstract and the sombre, silent objects do not reveal their secrets. The unresolved quality of the experience is an important point to Storch. We see and wonder without being given a definitive answer. Storch plays with what we think we see and questions that which we take for granted.
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