In a lonely place

Rus Mesic

Julio da Silva

Mari Østby Kjøll

The “In a lonely place” project has developed between Julio J. Fernandes da Silva, Rus Mesic and Mari Kjøll. In the current exhibition at DTK prosjektgalleri the artists show works that are founded in a wide range of materials, techniques and media. Each work or series is carefully installed in order to connect the different strategies to one another. This juxtaposition of media challenges the idea of a media specific aesthetic that has been reintroduced to the art scene lately. By letting the different interests and art strategies be played out against each other, the artists gain a specific semantic movement that change from one gallery to the other, from one spectator to the other. Sometimes this confrontation between media works as an internal contrast, and sometimes the installations build an abridging relation to the theme.

An important aspect of the works exhibited is the subtle change of state between the visible and the invisible.. The works of the artists deal to some extent with this fundamental distinction, establishing a dialectic pair; presence and absence. Objects and figures function as signs emanating from the works. This paradoxical play, the problem of visualising the invisible, keeps the works in movement, temporally, but also semantically. It produces a feeling of absence and instability, where meaning as such is at stake or in flux.