Altered States
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Christoffer Joergensen, Sphere of Portugal (2016), C-Print on diasec, Ø 150 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Sphere of Italy (2016)
Christoffer Joergensen, Sphere of Greece (2016)
Christoffer Joergensen, Sphere of The Netherlands, 2014, C-print, Diasec 150 cm diameter, Ed. 5
Christoffer Joergensen, La Grande Nation, 2012, C-print, Diasec 150 cm diameter, Ed. 1/5
CHRISTOFFER JOERGENSEN (DK/CH), Sphere of Norway, 2013, C-print on Diasec, Ed. 5, Diameter 150 cm.
Christoffer Joergensen, Eurosphere 1, 2013, C-print, Diasec 150 cm Diameter
Bundestag 27-1-2011, LightJet print Mounted on aluminium 58 x 70 cm
Stortinget 4-5-2011 , LightJet print Mounted on aluminium 70 x 70 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, France, 2012, C-print, 680 thin nails 148 x 124 cm.
Christoffer Joergensen, Nose Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Colour Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Peering Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Mask Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Claustrophobic Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cm
Christoffer Joergensen, Memory Portrait, 2013, C-print on Duraclear, manually cut & meshed 60 x 80 cmSolo exhibition by Christoffer Joergensen (CH/DK) (b. 1978).
November 4th 2016 – December 3rd 2016
Altered States is Christoffer Joergensen’s third solo exhibition at Galleri Christoffer Egelund. The show features Public Spheres, the artist’s long term project dealing with democracy and Europe.
The parliament is the heart of our democracies. Since 2010 Christoffer Joergensen has visited 15 of Europe’s parliaments and has photographed its plenary halls. This ongoing documentation forms the basis of the Public Spheres project.
In Joergensen’s view, the biggest threat to Europe does not come from somewhere beyond its borders but arguably from its very core: it’s identity, which is currently caught in a paradoxical state. It’s central values – democracy, human rights, liberalism – are supposed to be universal. But at the same time, Europe wants those values to be particular to itself.
In Altered States, Joergensen brings this contradiction to light through different fields of tension. His pictures are themselves paradoxical, displaying unity as well as fragmentation, particularity as well as universality, difference as well as repetition. The medium of photography, which forms the basis of his practice, can be viewed as similarly contradictory, as a global container for particular identities.
