Open Call : dylan ray arnold, Mrah Gazi, Mari Mattsson, Alma Edvall Bons
It’s Foggy Outside
11/10-10/11 2024
WCurator: Laus Østergaard
Opening: Friday 11 October 17.00-21.00
Galleri CC proudly presents the group exhibition It’s Foggy Outside with dylan ray arnold, Alma Edvall Bons, Mrah Gazi, and Mari Mattsson. The artists have been selected through our annualOpen Call. The exhibition showcases sculptural installations, video, sound, and paintings/collages and explores domestic patterns, the routines that shape our days, and how our homesand private spaces are embedded with memory and ambiguity.
Autumn brings us inside. Leaves turn yellow, orange, and brown and start falling. There is achange in the air, and the weather becomes increasingly unsettling. Nights grow longer while theartificial lights inside grow stronger. The urge to be at ‘home’ and inside becomes more present.It’s Foggy Outside invites you ‘home’, inside domestic daily life with everything that follows:familiar patterns, wallpapers, memories, nostalgia, routines, decorated interiors, and secretdrawers. These settings and objects silently witness our lives, collecting our memories andtracing our upbringing. But inside the familiar hides a presence of something unknown orforgotten, that shapes us without us knowing.
Mari Mattsson’s work Time Teller (Huda, Stacey, Boris, Mari, Amy, Emily, Jesse & Sandeep) is a soundinstallation with eight different interpretations of the graphic score Time Teller. The instructionson how to sing the score changes with the help of a clock and depending on the interpreter’sdaily routine or their location. The ensemble in this version consists of a group of artists whoshared a residency in an old train station. Each interpretation was recorded in the artists'respective homes, then arranged into a multi-channel composition, with one voice per speaker.
Mrah Gazi’s works explore visual contrasts between romanticism in cinema and interior/exteriorenvironments. His drawings of azulejos (meaning "polished stone") from Portugal, along withother architectural lines and patterns, are removed from their original contexts and placed inthe highly stylized interior environments of Soderbergh’s "Ocean’s" films. In these films,contrasting and heavily decorated interiors, along with dramatic lighting, play an essential role inconveying a sense of romanticism and artificial idealism.
dylan ray arnold’s scupltural installations, The Physical dimensions of consciousness with aborrowed blanket and Growth of the Night Plants(I&II) as well as Nightflight and Excursions from thedawn of everything combine gestures of hiding, concealing, covering, revealing, and retreating.These works use motifs such as flowers, drawers, and altered domestic materials like textiles,paper, and ceramics. The works explore a nocturnal sense of metamorphosis — an ongoing, andsomewhat hidden, process of becoming.
Alma Edvall Bons presents the work RADHUS, consisting of photographs taken at the artist'sgrandfather’s house just before it was sold. The house has not been renovated since it was builtin 1971 and it is like walking into a memory. It investigates the questions: What do you notice in ahome? What do you see when everything is familiar? How do you remember a wallpaper? RADHUSis about materials, memories, and how they taste. About a very squared lamp and notes on thekey cabinet with quotes by Tolstoy.
Thank you to Malmö Konsthall for kindly lending us equipment for the exhibition.
dylan ray arnold's work is supported by KONE foundation.
Galleri CC is supported by Malmö Stad and Kulturrådet.
Works by dylan ray arnold and Mrah Gazi. Foto: Mikkel Kaldal
Time Teller (Huda, Stacey, Boris, Mari, Amy, Emily, Jesse & Sandeep) by Mari Mattsson. Foto: Mikkel Kaldal
dylan ray arnold (b. 1982, Finland) is a Helsinki based visual artist working with scuplture,assemblage drawing and printed matter. Their artistic work accumulates into installations orspatial diagrams of expanded nervous experience. dylan manipulates and plays with a variety oflowly and quotidian materials and objects looking for material-poetic forms, postures andcompositions which hint at vital forces. Their work connects to everyday situations and systems,flows of matter and energy, as well as the relationships between mental and physical spaces.dylan holds a MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Their practice also includes a long termcollaboration (Touristes Tristes) with artist Océane Bruel.
Alma Evall Bons (b. 1993, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm and has a bachelor in fine artsfrom Konstfack 2022. Intrigued by the absurdity of everyday life, she finds interest in the meetingbetween humour and seriousness in specific phenomena, situations, or behaviours. Her practiceprimarily consists of text-based video, a medium that enables associative exploration and allowsher to approach different topics through a weave of places, characters, events and stories.Informed by the essay film, and the idea that moving images can generate unexpected thinking,she investigates different ways of portraying both intimacy and distance at the intersection oftext and image.
Mrah Gazi (b. 1991, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Malmö and holds an MFA from Umeå Academyof Fine Art 2021. Mrah Gazi’s practice tends to loosely revolve around history, cinema, interiorsand exterior architecture, early fashion photography and the seeking of relationships betweenthese various themes and aesthetics. Often blending medias such as painting, sculpture, collage,light installations and video.
Mari Mattsson (b. 1994, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. In 2023 Mattsson received an MFAfrom the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Through the use of sound, light and sculpture,Mattsson’s spatial installations explore themes such as perception and imagination in relation totechnology and the concept of time. The works often depart from movement, temporality andgraphic scores interpreted by invited artists or musicians.
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