Permanent Collection
Børre SÆTHRE
Entering the room through an automatic door, one is drawn into a soft, white space with a carpeted floor, and walls with rounded corners. Monitors show rays of light in red, blue and green, against a soundtrack of electronic noise. Reclining on the floor amid random light reflections from a mirror ball, is a mystical creature, white and furry, gaze fixed on something we cannot see. Inspired in part by classic sci-fi films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey , Sæthre’s work leads us away from the here and now to become lost in a place suspended in time and space, a past vision of the future locked within.
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya
Børre SÆTHRE
Born 1967 in Oslo, Norway; livesand works in New York (US), Berlin (Germany) and Paris (France). Sæthre studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His solo exhibitions include “Double Fantasy, The Pasolini Experience and Some Paranormal Activities Herslebsgt.10B,” as part of his residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2001-02), “Autonomic High (The things I can’t control, no matter how I try)” at FRAC Basse Normandie (Caen, France, 2005) and “Greetings to Futures Past” at MoMA PS1 (New York, 2008).
2008
529×838×450 cm
