April 3 - May 25, 2020
Curated by Reszegh Botond
Uj Kriterion Galeria
Miercurea-Ciuc, Transylvania
Harghita, Romania
On Trans/Essence - Photographic works 1997 - 2017
The exhibition Trans/essence offers a window into Anne Katrine Senstad’s lifelong examinations on perception and the phenomenology of light, color and space through the optics of the sensorial and the camera lens. These works seek to examine immateriality and the experiential domain of the senses through processes of re-materialization, geometry and reinterpretation of form. Circling back to the source, there is a re-conceptualization , reconsideration and reinvestigation of inhabited space and the realms of essence and origin. The photographic works in the exhibition are interconnected through a shared source; projections of light and color inhabiting space through time, a total removal of object and ontological experience of the sources. In Robert Smithson’s text on the modernist city as representation of a non-objective world, Senstad pursues what lies beyond the observable to find truths in nullification and antimatter.
There is a narration in the amalgamation of colors transpiring time and projected onto corners and walls as subject for the photographic series Color Kinesthesia, where pure color fields exist between mind and matter. In the photographic works deriving from these very color projections, we find an occurrence of materialization of the immaterial non-object, an action of arresting alogon and harnessing it onto the decisive moment’s celluloid surface of color film. Similarly the very same light and color immateriality creates the substance of Senstad’s earliest works, Essence of Light, objectifying and materializing that which cannot be held and re organizing light and color into the folds of the circle, the physical and the ephemeral into entity and a phoneme shaping of time.
Opening reception in quarantine April 3rd - a documentation video by curator Reszegh Botond in Hungarian and English during the pandemic of 2020:
Slide show installation views, sound by Cecilie Richards (©C.Richards/Hoodie):
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