Maria Pasenau
The Odder Erotica
15.01.2022 - 27.02.2022
I moved to the clitoris of the fjord, a dark place with steep labia moutons on both sides.
It made me go wild.
It made me plunge into a sensation of underlying eroticism.
It made me think of shadows, of black and white stripes that touch each other carefully.
It made me calm.
It made me interested in stones, in soft rain, the wind that slowly makes my hose crumble.
So slowly my thoughts changed.
The squareness of sexual pleasure faded.
OPENING JANUARY 15, 2022
FINISSAGE FEBRUARY 27, 2022: Trafo Kunsthall invites you to an artist tour and finissage with visual artist Maria Pasenau and editor and curator Elise By Olsen in the exhibition The Odder Erotica. Pasenau and Olsen have collaborated on several personal projects in recent years, including the publication "Pocket erotica (tales of the iPhone notepad)" created for this exhibition, and the magazine Recens Paper.
In the exhibition The Odder Erotica at Trafo Kunsthall Maria Pasenau investigates the bodily erotic undertone between man and nature. The exhibition consists of a larger investigative work composed of collages where drawing, mind maps and photography create a sphere where exploration, masturbation, emotions and repetitions are given free rein. The first thing the audience encounters is a throbbing, dark soundscape, which is complemented by sculpture and a wide selection of erotic books. The exhibition is designed to be a journey into challenging issues where the visitor ends up in a video work, which shows a different representation of the erotic.
Maria Pasenau (Mjøndalen, 1994) is a Norwegian contemporary artist working in Oslo and Odda. She graduated from the Norwegian School of Photography in Trondheim. Pasenau has had several solo exhibitions, including “Whit Kind Regrets Pasenau” (2018, Makeriet, Malmö, Sweden), “Pasenau and the Devil” (2019, Fotogalleriet, Oslo) and “The Hopelessness of Beeing Alive” (2020, Litteratursymposiet, Odda). Group exhibitions include “Early works” (2017, curated by Elise By Olsen, New Galerie, Paris), “Faithless pictures” (2018, curated by Andrea Kroksnes, National Museum) and “Sub” at Akershus Art Center in 2018, curated by Bjørn Hatterud. Pasenau also participated in Bjarne Melgaard's digital exhibition "Life killed my Chihuahua" published on the Instagram account of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in 2018. She has also published three photo art books; "Whit Kind Regrets Pasenau" in 2018, "Pasenau and the Devil" in 2019 and "The Hopelessness of Being Alive" in 2020. She is one of the youngest artists ever to be acquired by the National Museum.
The exhibition is supported by Fritt Ord, the Bergesen Foundation, Kulturrådet , Asker Kommune , The bay Fylkeskommune and Colorful Asker.
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