Anette Gellein
Dirty Magazines from Anette Gellein on Vimeo.
It all starts with the sound for Anette Gellein and how it goes through the body. Wherever it
comes from: the human voice, a recording, a simple noise or electronically made, it has its own
power, its physicality while the human body becomes transparent, a porous surface.
Anett Gellein (1995) lives and works between Lofoten and Oslo, Norway. She graduated this
year at the Tromsø Art Academy. Anette spent a couple of months in Longyearbyen doing an
internship at Artica Svalbard, helping the director Audhild Dahlstrøm to coordinate the events.
Anette's idea at the beginning of her practice is to mix the ethereal aspect of sound with the
impenetrability of the body to create a heterogeneity that can not be synthesized.
In the triple installation Situation of (All Writing is Pigshit) the Flesh, Maenad Maenad Adman,
We, The Born Capitalists, ( 2017 ), the three films are projected on transparent screens in order
to build a sort of maze that aloud to watch the films both individually and through each other,
in perspective.
Deeply influenced by Antonin Artaud, she herself explains in a text about the three videos on
her website: - I wanted to create another space, a kind of non-space. A place where there are
other rules, where there are other possibilities of becoming and being in other ways. Having
multiple identities. Working with the images as a medium, subtracting colors and inverting the
images created a possibility for me to build this visual space where the body can look like flesh
and transform to lines. Where it can be in flux, and multi-faceted-.
The performance S.M.A.B. ( 2016 ) emerges from the desire to give the written word the same
consistency of sound. The result is a performance that is also a video in which homogeneity
and the incongruity of the auditory experience is expressed through the presence and voice of
actors.
The transition from the acoustic dimension to the more spatial one s like that between an image
and its negative. Ahtnamas ( 2017 ), is the story of a sex robot and of another commodification
of human desire.
More than the story of a machine that promises to extinguish the desire, the artist insists on the
possibility of express the inextinguishable desire that goes through all things and all people.
I find very interesting the way in which Anette elaborates the images, transforming them in
their negatives, taken from reality, as in XXXXRadio ( 2017 ) where the synthetic sound of
electronic music guides the swaying and multiplying of a leaf.
In DIRTY MAGAZINES ( 2017 ) the images come from newscasts, gossip tv programs and
internet magazines. They are already originally conceived as a form of manipulation aimed at
consumption. Anette perverts the use of it, reversing them to the negative, abstracting the
figures, synthesizing the voices.
The next performance of Anette Gellein will be on December 16. in Oslo at the:
WINTER SOLSTICE 2017
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