Things To Come

THINGS TO COME
Bernd Behr, Simon Dybbroe Møller,
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Claire Hooper

18.03.04 - 01.05.04

Things to Come borrows its title from the 1936 science fiction film of the same name. Scripted by H. G. Wells the film traces the history of Everytown a hundred years into the future, culminating in the construction of a radiant, technocratic Utopia. While looking back at this total vision of the future, the four artists in the exhibition have been invited to produce new work.

In Click-Click Claire Hooper investigates that distant cousin of the era's revolutionary planning schemes; the post war council estate. Hooper's sculpture is a Formica-coated scale model of the negative space inside a flat. Resembling giant Lego bricks the six parts of the sculpture can, unlike the real thing, be split and re-arranged at will.

Click-click 2004

Claire Hooper
Formica, wood, board

The built environment also takes centre-stage in Bernd Behr's video piece Rorschach Manta, though architectural progress here has short-circuited. The strange, symmetrical apparition in the video, created by a wayward tarpaulin doubling itself in the mirrored facade of a half built office block, seems to suspend the building in between construction and decay.

Rorschach Manta 2004
Bernd Behr

Video Sentinel Burn 2004
Bernd Behr
Transparency on light box

With the paranoid pleasure of the conspiracy theorist Simon Dybbroe Møller's work demands that the personal be inscribed into historical statute. A stain on a newspaper and a book with a torn page reveals hidden messages and projects meaning onto seemingly unconnected historical events.

Occurrence #1 2004
Simon Dybbroe Møller

Inkjet print on newspaper, cup Occurrence #2 2004
Simon Dybbroe Møller

Found book, inkjet print on book page Jacob Dahl Jürgensen's Spectre is a slowly revolving mass of multi-coloured Perspex. Gaudily echoing the svelte and delicate constructions of Gabo and Moholy-Nagy in the era when the material was glamorously associated with aviation, this kinetic sculpture is made from rejected off-cuts scavenged from a local sign makers skip.

Spectre 2004
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen
Perspex, motor

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with essays by Jordan Kaplan and Dean Kenning. This can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the top of this page.

Things to Come was curated by Jacob Dahl Jürgensen