Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Sidsel Meineche Hansen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 |
| Known for | Installation,Film,Image,Photography,Sculpture,VRandAR. |
| Awards | Turner Prize,2020 |
Sidsel Meineche Hansen(born 1981,Denmark) is avisualartist based inLondon.[1]
Biography
[edit]Their work explores "virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to human labour within the gaming, pornographic and tech-industries", and includes pieces in materials as varied as wood, clay, metal, wood cuts, textiles, CGI animation and video.[2][3]They were one of ten artists selected for the £10,000 bursary which was awarded in lieu of the usualTurner Prizein 2020, as the judges adapted the prize in light of impacts of thecoronavirus pandemic.[4][5][6]The other recipients were Arika,Liz Johnson Artur,Oreet Ashery,Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Ima-Abasi Okon, Imran Perretta and Alberta Whittle.[7][8]Hansen was selected for "innovative use ofVRandAR"in the showsAn Artist's Guide to Stop Being An Artist(2019) andWelcome to End-Used City(2019).[4]
Selected works and exhibitions
[edit]In October - November 2014 Meineche Hansen had a solo exhibition at Cubitt Gallery, London. INSIDER collected works that "reflect[ed] on self-destruction and mutation".[1][9]
In March–May 2016gasworksLondon hosted Meineche Hansen's solo showSECOND SEX WAR.[10]Included in the show was a piece made by Meineche Hansen, Manuela Gernedel, Alan Michael, Georgie Nettell, Oliver Rees, Matthew Richardson, Gili Tal and Lena Tutunjian, called CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 (2016), which the artists called "an attempt to congeal the group's cultural capital into a cooperatively owned object".[11]
Real Doll Theatrewas a solo show at KW, Berlin, in 2018. The show included "collaborative works with filmmaker Therese Henningsen and musicians Asger, and Holger Hartvig, as well as a live set by the London-based Music projectEctopiaof Adam Christensen, Jack Brennan and Viki Steiri ".[12]
Work by Meineche Hansen was included in the 2019ArkDesStockholm iteration of theCruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Cultureproject, which was initiated at theVenice Biennalein 2018.[13]
An Artist's Guide to Stop Being An Artistwas installed at SMK/National Gallery of Denmark,in 2019.The show included the "life-sized ball-jointed figure with orifices that were compatible with oral and vaginal inserts made in silicone, which are sold for current sex robots on the market",Difficult to work with?(2019).[14]
Chisenhale Galleryhosted Meineche Hansen's solo showWelcome to End-Used City,displaying existing and newly-commissioned work in 2019.[2]The exhibition included the participatory installationEnd-Used City(2019), which participants could control with anXboxhandset, partly inspired by the seventeenth-century frontispiece by Abraham Bosse in Thomas Hobbes's philosophical treatiseLeviathan.[15]It included the workHellmouth (To Madame)(2018), which Flash magazine called a "gendered theological device".[16]Writing in Mousse magazine, India Nielsen notes that Meineche Hansen's work "visualize[s] the invisible, internalized structures of surveillance capitalism, highlighting the slippery trade-off between desiring something and becoming subject to it".[15]The show was highlighted by the 2020 Turner Prize judges for its use of VR and AR.[17]
In October–December 2020 Meineche Hansen's solo showhome vs ownerwas installed at Rodeo gallery, London.[3]
Links
[edit]Artist's website, labourpowerhttp://www.labourpower.co.uk/
References
[edit]- ^ab"INSIDER, Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Exhibition at Cubitt Gallery in London".ArtRabbit.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^ab"Sidsel Meineche Hansen – Chisenhale Gallery".Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^ab"home vs owner – London with Sidsel Meineche Hansen. October 10 – December 19, 2020- RODEO".rodeo-gallery.com.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^abTate."Turner bursaries".Tate.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^Tate."£10,000 Turner Bursaries awarded to 10 artists – Press Release".Tate.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^Fitter, Rosie."The Tate Britain announces the winners of the £10,000 Bursaries in place of this year's Turner Prize – The Glass Magazine".Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Tate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries".the Guardian.2 July 2020.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^Magazine, Wallpaper* (2 July 2020)."Turner Prize 2020 bursary winners announced".Wallpaper*.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"INSIDER, Sidsel Meineche Hansen".Cubitt Artists.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Exhibitions | Gasworks".www.gasworks.org.uk.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"A conversation between Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Nils Norman | Cell Project Space".www.cellprojects.org.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Sidsel Meineche Hansen".KW Institute for Contemporary Art.22 August 2018.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Culture at ArkDes".ArkDes - Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Sidsel Meineche Hansen".SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen (Statens Museum for Kunst).19 December 2018.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^ab"My Body Was a Temple in the End-Used City: Sidsel Meineche Hansen — Mousse Magazine and Publishing".www.moussemagazine.it.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London |".Flash Art.9 December 2019.Retrieved8 November2021.
- ^"In pictures: Turner Prize awards bursaries to ten artists".artreview.com.Retrieved8 November2021.