Art & Music part 1: Thomas Pålsson, Martin C. Fagerlund og Johan Forsby
Formation Gallery
21 Nov 2024 – 30 Nov 2024
Opening night and concert on November 21. Afterward, music will remain a part of the exhibition.
With the exhibition concept Art & Music, two successive short exhibition formats will explore the intersection of music and art. Music and concert elements will be integrated into the gallery space at Formation Gallery, where the accessibility of music interacts with contemporary art.
Visual artist Thomas Pålsson, photographer Martin C. Fagerlund, and musician Johan Forsby revisit the mutual inspiration between their three distinct practices that shaped their youthful friendship, embarking together into the unknown with the work NOWHERE, going beyond the edge and further still.
INGENSTED (UK: NOWHERE) explores the journey into the unknown and the discovery of new territory. It examines the role of mystery in the mundane, the place of the past in the present, and sampling as a fundamental element of art and evolution. Above all, it’s an atmosphere created through three media, experienced simultaneously. Everything in the exhibition is sampled: Martin C. Fagerlund’s photographs draw from old private photo albums. Once cherished treasures of a family, these albums are now random debris. He constructs images from pieces that don’t belong to the same puzzle. Thomas Pålsson’s drawings sample the entirety of humanity’s digitized visual production using artificial intelligence—images of images of images, with all the errors and distortions generated by algorithms. Johan Forsby samples stones, wind, drums, and instruments, as well as the moods in the visual artworks, while the visual artists, in turn, sample the moods of the instrumental music. This creates a form of cyclical co-production. With this exhibition, the collaborative and mutual inspiration of their youth is rekindled, as drawings, music, and photographs are created simultaneously in the same physical space during intensive multi-day sessions over several years. Each work is thus built on the others, reminding the artists not only of who they are but also of where they are going—together, beyond the edge.
Special thanks to Johan Høyer for sound mixing.
Thank you to Vesterbro Lokal udvalg for kindly supporting the exhibition.
Biographies:
Johan Forsby (b. 1980) is a musician, author, and Creative Director at Lahme Kommunikation. Forsby has a long history of acclaimed music releases under the stage name Jooks, both as a solo artist and in various collaborations, including Rent Mel, Suspekt, and Burhan G. He is the author of the novel Sons of Men, has contributed to theater productions, and has engaged in numerous creative collaborations across industries and art forms.
Martin C. Fagerlund (b. 1980) is a photographer with an extensive portfolio of photographic projects and exhibitions, including as part of the art collective It’s All Good. He holds a master’s degree in design from the Royal Danish Academy, specializing in photography and visual communication. Since then, he has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial projects and has worked as a graphic designer, art director, and photographer for a wide range of brands and agencies in design, fashion, and art.
Thomas Pålsson (b. 1980) is a visual artist with a background in graffiti and music. He works with drawing, painting, murals, and self-published works across various contexts and projects. In addition to his personal art practice, Pålsson is heavily involved in collaborative art, spearheading large-scale decoration projects (most recently on Papirøen) and engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations in urban spaces. He is also active in art education through lectures, workshops, and teaching at various institutions. A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Design in 2007, Pålsson has independently produced, exhibited, and published his material since then. He was recently chosen by the National Bank of Denmark to illustrate the country’s new banknotes.
