ORTHUNGA præsenterer ny udstilling med Steffen Jørgensen.
Salt stings and saves. It keeps meat alive long after it’s dead. Too much and you die, too little and you die. It’s balance, or maybe it’s just punishment that tastes good.
Sugar always promises comfort, but it’s a slow violence—soft, sticky, persistent. It clings. It never lets go. Even flies can’t resist it. Especially flies.
Sugar is hygroscopic; it drinks the room. It drinks your breath and your sweat. It drinks your presence and your absence. Over days it gets soft, then liquid, then doctrinally sticky, and drips off the paper into stalagmites of brown caramel.
The flies are already here. The honest ones. They sit on the sugar rim of the pot, black beads of judgment, buzzing like a chorus of teeth. Flies never lie. They love sugar and shit equally. They arrive only when something is about to return to the earth.
-Uddrag af tekst af Steffen Jørgensen
Steffen Jørgensen (f. 1983, DK) opbygger verdener, hvor samfundet langsomt imploderer, dyrene indtager hovedrollerne, og eksistentiel uro får karakter af en mærkeligt charmerende hobby. Med animation, post-apokalyptisk antropologi og hverdagsfilosofi, som redskaber dissekerer han de myter, vi lever efter—og lader dem køre i ring som et tog uden destination, med en udmattet giraf slæbende efter sig.
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ORTHUNGA
ORTHUNGA