Anton Benois burning his Australian passport in the video work Spooky Campfire Stories from 2020.
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Anton Benois | MUTATIONS
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition MUTATIONS by Anton Benois. The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Sunday 12.00-16.00, until December 19th.
MUTATIONS presents an installation composed of a series of objects and video work of 11 minutes. The exhibition explores the intersection of the ecological, political, cultural and personal - and how contemporary mutations within these nodes affect both discourse and the human condition.
Our epoch is mutating at rates beyond understanding. Some of these mutations are benign; many malignant and irreversible. As conversation in the digital space enters the physical environment, it begins to mutate our collective bodies, reshaping our minds and actions.
This idea is presented in the exhibition in the form of familiar items: mass-produced furniture, shower curtains, football scarves, towels. Here these domestic objects are stripped of their familiarity - here they become mutants. Their forms and uses are changed: they are a product of our own shifting present. This arrangement of things is a product of cultural mutation: physical debris born of digital production.
ANTON BENOIS
Anton Benois’ artistic practice is often concerned with the question of material choice. The relationship between people and things is the starting point for his artistic exploration. Which objects do we choose to take with us and which to leave behind: this choice is essential both to personal narratives and cultural mythmaking. His work is informed by his own multimigratory past, as a citizen and former citizen of Russia, USA and Australia.
Anton Benois’ artistic practice is often concerned with the question of material choice. The relationship between people and things is the starting point for his artistic exploration. Which objects do we choose to take with us and which to leave behind: this choice is essential both to personal narratives and cultural mythmaking. His work is informed by his own multimigratory past, as a citizen and former citizen of Russia, USA and Australia.
Anton Benois (b. 1979, Moscow) lives and works in Oslo. He graduated from Kunstakademiet i Trondheim (MFA) in 2019. Benois has been part of group exhibitions at Statens Kunstutstilling Høstutsillingen (2019), Trøndelagstutstillingen (2020), Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna (2019) and recently had a solo exhibition at BABEL Visningsrom for Kunst in Trondheim (2021).
The exhibition is supported by Norwegian Arts Council / Norsk kulturråd.
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