Soft Armour
UKS•Dec 09, 2017 — Jan 28, 2018
Kunstnernes Hus•Dec 09, 2017 — Jan 28, 2018
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In autumn 2017, a series of UKS solo exhibitions each employ both UKS’ grounds and a part of the neighboring venue, Kunstnernes Hus. Second in UKS’ series of double exposés is draughtsman, masquerader, and filmmaker Constance Tenvik (b.1990, NO, based in Berlin and Oslo). Tenvik’s abundant, new production Soft Armour focuses on a disastrous attempt to restage a medieval joust at a Scottish castle in Ayrshire in 1839. This gothic reenactment, entitled “The Eglinton Tournament” after its initiator Earl Eglinton, was flooded by both a torrential downpour—disabling most of the chivalric acts—and by the unexpected turnout of around 100,000 spectators; in hindsight making this a milestone of mischief in failing to making fantasy and reality meet.
Employing this hilarious image of romantic longing, of regress to another time while being caught in one’s own ‘tense’, Tenvik creates a timely pointer to a current conservative retrograde, and the idle potential of nostalgic folklore.…
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Soft Armour
UKS•Dec 09, 2017 — Jan 28, 2018
Kunstnernes Hus•Dec 09, 2017 — Jan 28, 2018
Press Release
In autumn 2017, a series of UKS solo exhibitions each employ both UKS’ grounds and a part of the neighboring venue, Kunstnernes Hus. Second in UKS’ series of double exposés is draughtsman, masquerader, and filmmaker Constance Tenvik (b.1990, NO, based in Berlin and Oslo). Tenvik’s abundant, new production Soft Armour focuses on a disastrous attempt to restage a medieval joust at a Scottish castle in Ayrshire in 1839. This gothic reenactment, entitled “The Eglinton Tournament” after its initiator Earl Eglinton, was flooded by both a torrential downpour—disabling most of the chivalric acts—and by the unexpected turnout of around 100,000 spectators; in hindsight making this a milestone of mischief in failing to making fantasy and reality meet.
Employing this hilarious image of romantic longing, of regress to another time while being caught in one’s own ‘tense’, Tenvik creates a timely pointer to a current conservative retrograde, and the idle potential of nostalgic folklore.…
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