EVERYTHING STRUCTURED
AMALIE B. LUNØE
Amalie B. Lunøe (b. 1981, DK) presents a new series of works examining the structured environment that constantly surrounds and shapes our existence. The show’s title Everything Structured refers to both structuralist and post-structuralist ways of thinking.
"The goal of all structuralist activity, whether reflexive or poetic, is to reconstruct an 'object,' in such a way as to manifest thereby the rules of functioning (the 'functions') of this object. The structure is therefore actually a simulacrum of the object, but it is a directed, interested simulacrum, since the imitated object makes something appear which remained invisible or, if one prefers, unintelligible in the natural object"
(Roland Barthes, 1963).
Lunøe’s drawings and sculptures employ repetition, pattern, echoes, and oppositions to challenge our sense of perception. By implicating repetitions and oppositions she explores the relationship between the chosen materials. The reoccurring elements become an autonomy of culture created by the works combined presence.
Lunøe uses these patterns and materials to examine thought and behaviour that visualises the commonalities in abstract constructions. Beneath each surface is yet another layer and it is clear that Lunøe urges the viewer to access these. To understand one surface we must look at the deeper level.
This creates systems of signs and materials that appear to transmit certain information. Whether we understand these signs or not becomes irrelevant, as it is the process of decoding that holds sway in Lunøe’s visual vocabulary.
Thus, Lunøe’s work becomes concerned with the constraining role of society and culture in the shaping of the individual and can therefore be appointed to the question of free thought and to which extent this really exists.
www.amaliebl.dk
AMALIE B. LUNØE
Amalie B. Lunøe (b. 1981, DK) presents a new series of works examining the structured environment that constantly surrounds and shapes our existence. The show’s title Everything Structured refers to both structuralist and post-structuralist ways of thinking.
"The goal of all structuralist activity, whether reflexive or poetic, is to reconstruct an 'object,' in such a way as to manifest thereby the rules of functioning (the 'functions') of this object. The structure is therefore actually a simulacrum of the object, but it is a directed, interested simulacrum, since the imitated object makes something appear which remained invisible or, if one prefers, unintelligible in the natural object"
(Roland Barthes, 1963).
Lunøe’s drawings and sculptures employ repetition, pattern, echoes, and oppositions to challenge our sense of perception. By implicating repetitions and oppositions she explores the relationship between the chosen materials. The reoccurring elements become an autonomy of culture created by the works combined presence.
Lunøe uses these patterns and materials to examine thought and behaviour that visualises the commonalities in abstract constructions. Beneath each surface is yet another layer and it is clear that Lunøe urges the viewer to access these. To understand one surface we must look at the deeper level.
This creates systems of signs and materials that appear to transmit certain information. Whether we understand these signs or not becomes irrelevant, as it is the process of decoding that holds sway in Lunøe’s visual vocabulary.
Thus, Lunøe’s work becomes concerned with the constraining role of society and culture in the shaping of the individual and can therefore be appointed to the question of free thought and to which extent this really exists.
www.amaliebl.dk
Press:
April 2013: Interview by Ditte Knus Tønnesen and pictures from the exhibition Everything Structured. On Kopenhagen
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Photographs by GREEN IS GOLD.
