Working across a wide range of media, including sculpture, drawing, film and text, the element of absurdity to be found in everyday experiences is linked to the methods of the Situationist dérive in the work of Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen. Seeking to displace the usual meanings of things found in urban spaces, one representation merges with another to form a juncture. This displacement often happens between two figures or histories to tell these stories anew.
Moreover, Gullaksen’s critique operates within the act of translation. He reflects on the revisionist potential of language construction as though relaying the itinerary of the translator on tour, who is careful to acknowledge slippages between meanings and points out the potential in things left out of context. In the course of his spatializing narratives, Gullaksen reveals the inevitable incompleteness of a translation process, only to leave behind potently ambiguous, recycled composites in material form.
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Exhibitions
A Nuthing in a Nutshell w/ Marius Engh Publication Archival box, 4 Inkjets on 308 g photo rag paper, Pamphlet, DVD, 11 Woodcuts, 5 b/w Photographs, 8 color Photographs and Text Variable dimentions Installation view Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2012
A Nuthing in a Nutshell w/ Marius Engh Publication Archival box, 4 Inkjets on 308 g photo rag paper, Pamphlet, DVD, 11 Woodcuts, 5 b/w Photographs, 8 color Photographs and Text Variable dimentions Installation view Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2012
The object is that which is objected against me (prologue)2010 Slide projection 80 slides Variable size
The object is that which is objected against me (prologue)2010 Slide projection 80 slides Variable size
Dead-wall ReveriesSculpture Wood panels, hinges and alkyd paint Installation view Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, 2009
Untitled (page 8/41/161/219/273)Prints (each a unicum) Ink-jet on Epson fine art paper 61 x 85.5 cm framed Installation view, Bastard, Oslo, 2007
Untitled (page 8/41/161/219/273)2007 Prints (each a unicum) Ink-jet on Epson fine art paper 61 x 85.5 cm framed
Untitled (It’s always kul shee maku, said Sgt. Rob Hammer, a 32-year-old squad leader from Kansas, reciting the Arabic phrase for “there is nothing”, which the entire platoon knows.)Window work Foil with perforated sentence Variable size Installation view, Bastard, Oslo, 2007