House Flipper

Artist
Esben Gyldenløve

Opening  
Friday, February 14th 2025 from 5 - 8 pm 

Curator
Astrid Wang

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Supported by
Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Louis-Hansens Fond & William Demant Fonden

A special thank to Jonathan Hjorth, Naomi di Biasio, Pip Seagrave & Camilla Reyman

            EN
Esben Gyldenløve’s House Flipper interrogates the intersection between hostile architecture, political representation and class segregation— in our public spheres and in the context of the exhibition space. A full-scale replica of a restrictive iron structure from outside of the amusement park Tivoli dominates the exhibition, forcing visitors into controlled movement. Other works, including an enlarged replica of the artist’s lost tooth cast in scratch cards, explore the bodily cost of the cycles of desire and consumption. With equal parts candour and satire, Gyldenløve’s work stakes out modes of resistance by reclaiming objects and signs from common spaces, the home, and finally, his own body.

Esben Gyldenløve (b. 1983, DK) holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He works with sculpture in an expanded field, typically exploring a new subject for each project or exhibition and deploying a diverse range of performative and conceptual gestures in a practice, which does not easily lend itself to categorisation. The interest in how embodiment, perception, and representation mutually constitute each other, materially and ideologically, is however always the common starting point for his work.

            DK

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