In the exhibition LEGESTUE (PLAYROOM) by Javier Alvarez Sagredo and Sofie Winther, the artists present new, characterful paintings and sculptural installations that thematize what degree of freedom and what frameworks best form the basis for human upbringing and development. With the artworks, they playfully challenge how materials and objects typically support social structures and regulate our behavior by rethinking their stories.
Javier Alvarez Sagredo and Sofie Winther are both in their young adulthood with small children, which has given them a critical look at how we as a society create the frameworks for children's lives and development. Their own experiences, but also the Danish political movement Børnemagt (Child Power), which argued that childhood has a justification in itself, and not just as a preparatory phase for adulthood, provide inspiration for the exhibition. Since the 1970s, when the movement arose, children and their conditions have received increasing and deserved greater attention and, with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, formal rights. Yet, according to the artists, we continue to design society so that we encounter the world in a certain way throughout our lives.
With this exhibition, Javier Alvarez Sagredo and Sofie Winther discuss the systems that shape our lives and challenge established norms of behavior. The artworks in the exhibition are at the same time poetically teasing and a critical statement about the social and everyday structures that we give to children, but which shape us throughout our lives.
Kilde: Gammelgaard