Alex Hudson (UK)
Youngjae Lih (KOR)
Johan Lundin (SE)
Camilla Edström Ödemark (FIN)
Malmö Open Call
28/10 - 20/11 2016

Curator: Benjamin Andersson, Madelaine Sillfors & Sofia Wickman 


Gallery CC presents Malmö Open Call - on the basis of 40 applications, we have selected four artists. Our ambition with the Malmö Open Call has been to focus on local artists and provide an insight into the contemporary art scene in Malmö. Three curators from different fields worked together and here they present an exhibition where the works at first glance do not seem particularly related to each other but overlap and create a new context.

ALEX HUDSON
Alex Hudson (b.1976 London UK)
My ambition is to make paintings that test skill and theoretical knowledge of the medium with a deft hand and pictorial wit. The work continues to evolve out of a need to create or find imagery that loosely fits with the cycle of ideas that underpin my practise. The titles of the paintings often allude to a magical or extraordinary moment, riffing off of art historical genres such as Romantacism and the Sublime while borrowing from formal tropes across the history of painting.
www.alexhudson.co.uk

YOUNGJAE LIH
Youngjae Lih (b. 1984 Seoul) lives in Malmö. Previously, he studied and worked as an electronic engineer in the semiconductor industry. Whist working, he kept exploring different fields and decided to finally turn his passion for art into a profession in 2010. Focusing on the nature of existing objects and the interactions between them, he is interested in the syntax and formation of new narrative strands. In this sense, the majority of his works developed in different mediums share an obvious grammatical and linguistic structure. He has shown his work in Norway, Sweden and South Korea. And he has also presented his work at conferences and festivals in Berlin and Seoul. Youngjae Lih has a broad practice that encompasses the artistic disciplines of photography, film, screen-printing and sound. His interests in natural phenomena combined with structural observations result in a visual and auditory language that has an intrinsically poetic dimension.
www.youngjaelih.com

JOHAN LUNDIN
Johan Lundin, born 1988, is an artist producing performance, installation and video. The moving body and its expression is central in these productions which are shaped by questions of gender identities and their relation to social structures.
The craft is forming an understanding of a body of material, light and sound constituting environments of perception and sensation. Scenography and costumes are visualizing a parody of physical environments and material. These stagings display the identity and function of a site, indicating the sites geographic location, historical, social and cultural context. The performativity and audience interactivity could be understood through relating to the notion of conceptual dance as going in to a role, taking on a mission or a character. An approach is communicated of a setting to always be understood through the character enacting the space, putting life and character in to it or dancing in it. Stating that by the act of dancing one can choose to enhance a setting, see the setting as something else or make the setting disappear completely.
Themes include the functions and limitations of the spoken word versus the body language and the dynamic relationship between perception and interpretation.
Johan Lundin is educated at Konstfack (SE), Steneby School of Design and Crafts (SE), Bergen Academy of Art and Design (NO) and School of Dance and Circus (SE).
www.johanlundin.com

CAMILLA EDSTRÖM ÖDEMARK
Camilla Edström Ödemark (b. 1985, Åland, Finland) is a visual and media artist addressing the dynamic relation between popular culture, worldview and representation of identity. Using mainly downloaded material, her work suggests that the stories of our culture affect who we are, at the same time as who we are affects the stories we choose to tell.
In the video This Happened to Us, Edström Ödemark investigates how we psychologically deal with environmental issues. Comparing ecological disaster with the loss of a lover, a way of dealing with the pain is to binge-watch TV-series. Here, the artist uses two hyped themes within contemporary TV, the post-apocalyptic and the neo-medieval, to talk about how we through fiction approach the consequences of our environmental impact.
www.edstromodemark.com

Every year Galleri CC arranges an Open Call, this year we chose to focus on local artists. In 2015 Galleri CC made an international video art marathon with 72 artists.

Photo: Raffaele Piano