Ballardian

News of an installation in Oslo…

Ann Lislegaard Crystal World ( after J.G Ballard ), 2006; Ann Lislegaard: Science Fiction and other worlds

26 May-26 August 2007

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Dronningens gt 4, 0107 Oslo, Norway

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art has in recent years presented a
series of exhibitions with younger Norwegian artists.

This year we have the pleasure of presenting Ann Lislegaard (b. 1962).
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Some of Lislegaard’s works invite us into a cinematic or virtual space in which uncomplicated means such as spatial displacement, the combination of traditional film and animation, or the interplay between light and shadow, capture us in an almost meditative experience. Although often constructed in simple ways, these works contain striking aesthetic qualities. Lislegaard moves about in a digital landscape, exploring the possibilities of her media in order to create alternative experiences of place. In the new works Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) and Bellona (after Samuel R. Delany), viewers are invited to enter a fascinating cinematic room in which they encounter monumental digital animations. It is science-fiction
literature’s ability to create alternative places that fascinates Lislegaard and functions as a backdrop for some of her best works.”

[thanks, Chris; via Bruce Sterling]