Matilde Søes Rasmussen & Marie Flarup Kristensen

Statement

We explore questions concerning youth, love, identity, female desire, and sad flowers. We like drama and to stick our high heels in the dark clay. We are an artist duo: Matilde Søes Rasmussen & Marie Flarup Kristensen.

We both hold a BFA in Fine Art Photography from HDK Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the past 2 years we have as a duo had two solo shows, participated in a group show and published 3 zines. We work with photo, video, writing, installation, performance. Our work is the offspring of an often non-verbal artistic collaboration, where care, trust, and an interest in mysterious female existences are all elements.

In our recent project “The Lookout” we went on a hiking trip to discover how close photographic collaboration might look: dressing up as each other, mimicking each other’s poses, and even remixing our facial features in post-production. It became a fanzine and a video work. The work is the offspring of our nonverbal artistic collaboration, where color, experimentation and trust are all important elements. The zine was produced for a group exhibition at Volkano in Gothenburg and was later showcased at a self- publication event at NEJD in Gothenburg.

Our collaboration allows us to go places we never could have walked alone. Through a playful and intuitive way of experimenting, we explore both ourselves and each other. From the out and the inside. Eyes tend to be like mirrors and I see your every move.

GlogauAIR Project

During our stay at GlogauAIR we would be exploring further how a close photographic collaboration between two artists might look: dressing up as each other, mimicking each other’s poses, and even stealing each other’s facial features and digitally rearranging them. We are eager to work in the form of both print and publication, as well as performance, video and installation. We will continue from our project The Lookout (see example in detached PDF and videos), expanding the concept and hopefully find new ways and techniques in the elaboration. We will work towards showcasing the project in front of a local audience and creating community in Berlin during our stay. The Showcase project would be a good opportunity for us to show our work in progress and we hope to do something different and challenging with this window to the street. Our work often circulates around themes concerning staging and the effect of self-staging and we think this window could be a great showroom for our work in progress.

CV Summary

Matilde Søes Rasmussen (1990)

• 2020 Kvinnofolkhögskolan, Your Silence Will Not Protect You, anti-racist writing course, Gothenburg
• 2017 – 2020 HDK Valand, BFA Fine Art Photography, Gothenburg
• 2015 – 2016 Fatamorgana The Danish School of Art Photography, Copenhagen
• 2013 – 2014 Atelier Smedsby 1-year photographic workshop by JH Engström & Margot Wallard, Paris
• 2013 Rayko School of Photography, San Francisco

Marie Flarup Kristensen (1992)

• 2020 – 2021 HDK Valand, Animation, Gothenburg
• 2017 – 2020 HDK Valand, BFA Fine Art Photography, Gothenburg
• 2014 VERA skole for kunst og design, Copenhagen
• 2013 Holbæk kunsthøjskole, Holbæk

Selected shows

• 2020 GROUP SHOW 1 – Södra Änggården, Gothenburg
• 2020 We’ve Been Sent A Strange Sign, Landskrona Foto Festival 2020, group show, Landskrona
• 2020 UGot Distance, BFA graduation show Akademin Valand, Ugotphotography
• 2019 465 Orchids From My Lover, Room 2012, Gothenburg
• 2019 JIR SANDEL, online selfie group exhibition at artviewer
• 2019 The World Without Me, GIBCA EXTENDED, KKV Bohuslän
• 2019 o_O, group show, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg
• 2019 Nordic Dummy Award, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
• 2019 Rising Action, KLIMAX, Stockholm
• 2019 Ordna Livet – Sjutton böcker, group show, Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, Gothenburg
• 2018 Papier-Mâché, Gallery Entrance, Gothenburg
• 2018 Pink River Dolphins (curator Fryd Frydendahl), group show, Kræ Art Space, Copenhagen
• 2017 The Belly and The Members, group show, Cob Gallery, London
• 2017 Log Pose (curator by Paola Paleari), group show, Fotopub Photo Festival, Novomesto
• 2017 A _ is A _ (curator Antonia Marsh), group show, Golborne Gallery, London
• 2017 Vi tager intet ansvar 5, KRÆ syndikatet, Copenhagen
• 2016 Pillow Talk, group show, Palm Tree Gallery, London

Grants & nomination

• 2020 Danish Art Foundation litterature grant (DK)
• 2019 Adlerbertska Stiftelsen (SE)

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