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Oli SorensonRefugees2024
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Oli Sorenson’s solo exhibition, «Après moi, le déluge » discloses a series of impactful works on the deadly perils of capitalism through a group of paintings, prints, watercolours, and installations. The title draws a parallel between our times and Louis the XV’s sentiment, the French king’s citation indicating his disconnect with what chaos he left in the wake of his excesses. The same phrase was later revisited by Marx to stigmatize the bourgeoisie of his era, as the leitmotif of the flood strongly features throughout history and human consciousness from past myths to our very factual and impending future. Biblical creatures were punished for their sins by torrents, and today with climate change, we are also faced with rising seas and historic inundations worldwide. Hence the mood of Sorenson’s show reflects our anxieties in the face of natural disasters and the weight of the Anthropocene—the impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystem—bearing down on our collective psyche.
Sorenson’s oeuvre depicts a myriad of humanitarian crises occurring as we stand on the edge of an ecological precipice. We find evidence of this pending collapse in African mining industries with Blood Diamond, industrial pollution in Oil Spill and Factory, the housing crisis via Homeless, the impact of supply chains through Cargo, natural disasters within The Flood and Iceberg, war and immigration in Refugees, the harms of industrial farming through Porcherie and Insecticide, all of which combine to forecast turmoils of epic proportions.
Rooted in remix culture, Sorenson’s aesthetic pulls from Minimalism, Brutalism, Pop Art, early video games of the 70s and 80s, and Neo-Geometric Conceptualism. Always interested in experimentation and materiality, here the artist eschews outright abstractions in favour of harder edged, highly stylized figurations. Notably, he includes the human shape for the first time in these works, in tandem with a manual gesture that appears strikingly in his watercolours, creating a contrast between handmade objects vs. mass produced machine-made items.
The lens-based, single channel video Climate Death shows the artist looking sideways as if refusing to face us, his profile like a monarch on the back of a coin, delivering a lecture performance about the causes of climate change and the resulting effects on the human psyche. Edited in a kaleidoscope of bright colours and dramatically pixelated subtitles flashing over the screen, his speech resembles a grim reaper’s warning as he compares Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief to what lies ahead in the progress of climate change. However, the piece also speaks of hopeful potentialities after one comes to terms with the end of climate as we know it. In Sorenson’s own words, “End capitalism now or nature will stop it later, much more violently”.
- Creator:Oli Sorenson
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 120 in (304.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Montreal, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU47614959502
Oli Sorenson’s remix art was first recognised in London, after taking part in numerous media art events at the Institute of Contemporary Art (2003-06), Tate Britain (2006), and the British Film Institute (2008-10). He also gradually established an international profile when performing at ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2002), ISEA (Helsinki, 2004), Mapping (Geneva, 2009) and Sonica Festivals (Ljubljana, 2012). After moving to Montreal in 2010, Sorenson redirected his work towards gallery based projects, and since exhibited at The Power Plant (Toronto, 2014), FILE (Sao Paulo, 2015), Monitoring (Kassel, 2017) and Art Mûr (Berlin, 2018). Sorenson consistently disrupts institutional expectations of the visual artist as a producer of proprietary images. His work exposes the contradictions between limited copyright and massively reproducible media but also asks timely questions about singular authorship in an age of overabundant networked content. Under such conditions, the making of a contemporary work of art involves more distributed processes than isolated generative acts from original authors. Beyond market pressures to produce new and exclusive art objects, lies a material culture of exchange and emulation embraced by networked societies. Sorenson aims to unsettle this prevalence of art created from scratch by promoting gestures of citation and appropriation. When he copies, transforms and combines existing works by established artists, such cultural materials are re-used and recycled not in spite of their propertied ties to private estates but rather by virtue of their belonging to a specific heritage, community and/or collective memory.
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