Kunsthuis SYB

Kunsthuis SYB presents: Rory Pilgrim (GB), Erica van Loon (NL), Shana Moulton (US, future SYB resident) and Noa Giniger (IS/NL).

SUPERMARKET is an exciting yearly international artist-run art fair for artist-run galleries and other artists’ initiatives, to present the work of artists they have worked with. For Supermarket 2012, Kunsthuis SYB presents a small group show, with works by former resident artists Rory Pilgrim (GB), Erica van Loon (NL), Shana Moulton (US, future SYB resident) and Noa Giniger (IS/NL).
All the artworks presented were developed during the artists’ residency period over the course of 2011. They show how the artists used their time at SYB for the experimentation and development of new paths, in terms of artworks as well as of (human) relations – making visible the richness and the potential of spending a focused time in SYB’s house. Nature, space, collectivity, rest, voicing together are some of the threads that you will find looking at the works presented by SYB at Supermarket.

During the days of the fair, SYB’s booth will be the stage for a new version of ‘De Stile Revolutie’ (The Quiet Revolution), a performance developed by Rory Pilgrim last spring at SYB. Originally taking place in the small village of Beetsterzwaag in Friesland, Pilgrim invited all those in the village to gather in an outside theatre 7km away to share a moment of music, words and silence. While a local brass band played the score written by the artist, two women from different generations responded to the artist’s question: “What does change mean to you?”
This same question will be reenacted with the collaboration of Swedish women on Saturday 18, at 4pm at the fair. As in other previous works, this performance shows Pilgrim’s interest in the timeless cultural forms of speech, discussion and musical performance, as ways we use to profess what we believe in, individually and collectively, as individuals, communities and nations.

Next to Pilgrim’s performance, there will be works by Erica van Loon and Noa Giniger with Shana Moulton (future SYB resident).

‘Veldwerk’, a video by Erica van Loon, is multilayered landscape realized by the artist during her exploration of the nature surrounding Kunsthuis SYB. While at SYB, van Loon made a series of floating sculptures that she placed together with the landscape on different locations as a way to search a confrontation between the constructed and the natural. In the artist’s words, this was an attempt to see how this flying sculptural shape could work “as a sign in the sky, as a viewfinder that moves over the landscape”.

Noa Giniger used her residency at SYB to turn the intimate creative process inside out with the project ‘ZIMMER for F.A.B.’. She invited six artist friends to each share with her a week in her ‘Zimmer’, or holiday home. With this Giniger bridged the physical distance that normally separates them, and transformed SYB in a space for conversations about personal themes such as loneliness, aging, relationships and dreams. The video shown at Supermarket made with guest artist Shana Moulton (US) is one of the results of this time – apparently unproductive -, spent together with her colleague.

As part of SYB’s presentation, we will screen also Shana Moulton‘s video “The Galactic Pot Healer” (2010), from her ongoing series “Whispering Pines”. Combining an unsettling, wry humour with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays Cynthia a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. Moulton will be a SYB resident artist in 2013.

Opening hours:
Fri 11am–10pm, Sat 11am–8pm, Sun 11am–6pm.

Location:
Kulturhuset, located in the city centre of Stockholm.

Exhibition:
Hundreds of artists, 79 artist-run galleries and similar artists’ initiatives from 30 countries.

The programme includes the seminar series TALKS, the performance stage RED SPOT, network meetings and much more.

SUPERMARKET, STOCKHOLM 2012
17-19 february 2012

Dit project wordt mede gefinancierd door het Mondriaan Fonds.