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Flash (2008). Installation at Kunstmuseum Bonn. One of the works for which Kristoffer Akselbo was awarded the Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2008.

Akselbo tabs into the pool of visual details and special effects of Hollywood, television and art history. Half-forgotten sequences that floataround in the back of the mind of the viewer are picked up by Akselbo and recontextualized in the form of kinetic sculptures and installations.

As signs and symbols in their own right, the performative sculptures involve the viewer in a dialogue with the broader visual culture that reverts visual cliches and narratives into a new language of sculpture.

Often stirring the imagination towards the humorous, poetic and fantastic, everyday objects can suddenly change the perception of reality and provide a cinematic perception of reality.

A coffeemug rests on the windowsill. The coffee is cold but the surface shows ripples of motion from an unseen force. Perhaps this will give you a flashback to the scene in Jurrasic Park where you see the rythmic ripples in a glass of water signifying the hord of dinosaurs on the loose? Or is it the possible dangers of an earth quake showing its face?

A pin-up poster from the mechanics workshop attracts the eye, only to respond to your look by lifting up its pins and slowly putting them back into place.

Selfconscious? From the dustbin you hear a rustle and out the corner of your eye you see something moving in the scrabs of trashed paper. Is it the guilty feeling of an unpaid bill or the guilty feelings of a trashed loveletter? Or a mouse having a ball in your trash?

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