Examensutställningar: Emma Rolén och Jan Matsson

Emma Rolén och Jan Matsson, masterstudenter i fri konst, öppnar sina examensutställningar den 14 november 2014. 

Vernissage
14 november, kl 16-20 

Utställningstid
15-23 november, 2014

Öppettider
Vardagar 12-18, helger 12-17

Emma Rolén om sin utställning A Body Without Muscles
A sculpture is attributed with properties depending on its anatomical structure
The sculpture can be identified due to its hairiness
You tell me that the bronze body has no hair

Josh Shaddock om Jan Matssons utställning Golvet är golvet
Working construction every summer as a teenager, the old carpenters would always tease the young seasonal help by asking us, “Working hard? Or hardly working?” The answer was so obvious in our exhausted bodies that it was more fun to extend the joke and shout, “Hardly working!”

The construction site shows everything leading up to work, everything in the midst of work, and everything left over. Everything but the work itself. Notes, plans, tools, scraps, piles, spills, stains. Provisional, propped up, strapped and taped together, left behind. A viewer is left to wonder what they just missed or what’s just about to happen. An unintentional, incidental arrangement of debris left in the wake of directed, planned labor.

Jan Matsson’s work has this incidental quality. Objects seem left behind, left over, left for later. A sense that the work is some other place or time... removed, unfinished, interrupted, garbled. It leaves the viewer unsettled, anxious.

But this is a gallery, this is an exhibition, this is the work, this is it. What is the work? It would be tempting to dismiss as haphazard, unresolved. But then there’s that anxiety. Picking up traces of the frenzy that has passed through this room, through this material. The feeling that all this is building furiously toward some plan, some unity, some result… but one that could never be discerned. In being unfinished, the work is finished. Through waste, something has been created. In stopping, the work goes on. It is in these contradictions that we are arrested. And to be held there is the work, the heavy lifting.

Jan is hardly working.
Jan is working hard. 

(Josh Shaddock, artist, NY)

Galleri Mejan
Galleri Mejan är Kungl. Konsthögskolans studentgalleri. Här visas separatutställningar av masterstudenter i fri konst. Som en del i undervisningen ansvarar respektive student för att bygga och installera sin utställning. En kritisk genomgång av utställ­ningen sker under utställningsperioden. Separatutställningen är tillsammans med masteressän ett centralt utbildningsmoment under masterprogrammets sista läsår.

Adress: Exercisplan 3 (mitt emot Moderna Museet), Skeppsholmen

Bild ovan
Vänster: Emma Rolén
Höger: Jan Matsson

Pressbilder
Pressbilder publiceras på Kungl. Konsthögskolans hemsida en vecka efter vernissage. Fotograf är Jean-Baptiste Béranger.