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PAPER PLANES
Skovlandet, Skørping, Denmark
20.08.2020 - 30.10.2020
Press release
Folds of time and light
In the exhibition Paper Planes, Laila Svensgaard shows completely new works, all of which have the geometric shape of the paper plane as a focal point. In the large paper works, she has folded, and exposed to light, hundreds of small paper planes, which are then arranged in patterns that arise from the folded geometry of the planes. At first glance, this is austere minimalism, but soon a quietly vibrating visual poetry is revealed, a poetry that springs from small, inconspicuous differences.
The paper planes are folded from analogue photo paper long past its expiry date. When the silver grains and the chemistry in the paper are no longer stable, all the photograms turn out slightly different, even though they have been exposed to the same amount of light and developed using the same method. They should be the same, but aren't.
The works in the exhibition, which also include installations with floating slide projectors, do not just go beyond the associative layers of meaning of the paper plane, they are more than formal investigations of time and light. They also revolve around concepts such as meaning and existence: Do each of us see the same things? Do we live in individually – or in collective – folds of time and light?
Mette Lucca Jensen, curator Skovlandet. 2020