JESPER CARLSEN

Jesper Carlsen (DK) was educated at Funen Art Academy in 2006. Jesper Carlsen works with different media like painting, drawing, installation, video and animation. However, regardless the medium, Jesper Carlsen boils situations down to a reduced, conceptual form. The situations seem like subtle displacement of your daily and ordinary perception of nature in a modern world.
The works produce hereby on one side recognition but at the same time also the cunning of displacement through a humorous, alienating construction e.g. in the video installation Buzz (2006). You enter a dark room and are allured by a shining object in the corner. A fly also appears in the shining corner. The fly is also drawn by a neon tube that refers to the light installation of American artist Dan Flavin. In the moment of perception, the neon tube functions as a real object but it actually emerges through the projection. In this video installation, it becomes clearly in the viewer’s perception of the work how Carlsen has a fundamental interest in playing with the perception and possible displacement of the viewer.

The work No Titel (2006) was originally developed for Kbh Kunsthal in front of Stenoapoteket (drugstore). Jesper Carlsen was interested in the absent room which the transparent exhibition cases of Kbh Kunsthal indicate. In the exhibition case, this absence was increased by the installation of neon tubes inside all the sides of the case. On the floor of the exhibition case, there was a light projector turned on and through the glass it illuminated a disco ball. The disco ball was placed at one of the benches which functioned as waiting spot for the day-and-night drugstore. This way, the disco ball was lit up by the light projector which made the disco ball light up the floor inside the drugstore. Hereby, Kbh Kunsthal was an acting exhibition case, which caused a happening outside itself. This project is now shown at the exhibition EKSIL (EXILE) at Krabbesholm Højskole in Skive. The project is shown in one of the exhibition cases placed by FOTOHUSET (the photography building), built 1999. The disco ball is hung up in on of the tree crowns by the avenue leading to the main building of Krabbesholm. It is the first exhibition case you will see when arriving at the school and the last exhibition case that you will notice when it by the shining light draws attention to its function and its interaction with the disco ball in the three. An incredibly shining feature for its surroundings.

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