Sleeping at New Times at Detroit Stockholm: Exploring the concept of time from diverse backgrounds
On view: May 7-14, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 7, 5-9 pm at Detroit Stockholm
Hours: Tues-Fri: 5-8pm, Sat-Sun: 2-6pm
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From left: Heidi Edström, Knöl #39.2 (Pleural Effusion) (detail), 2021, bacterial culture in vacuum-shaped plastic, metal stand and silicone tubes, 175 x 45 x 45 cm; and Megan Mueller, 5th and Grand Ave, 2023, Inkjet prints, 254 x 78 x 104 cm
Organized by Sean Noyce, Katya Usvitsky, Megan Mueller, and Sam Scharf
Artists: Heidi Edström (SE), Ida-Johanna Lundqvist (SE), Megan Mueller (USA), Sean Noyce (USA), Sam Scharf (USA), and Katya Usvitsky (USA)
In collaboration with GAIT (LA) and exhibition hosts Detroit Stockholm (SE), Noysky Projects presents Sleeping at New Times, a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores the notion of time from diverse backgrounds. Sleeping at New Times is part of a larger cultural exchange with other Swedish and Los Angeles-based project spaces called ScandiLA, where each trade off curatorial and exhibition opportunities in their respective cities.
Time as a universal concept is an abstract principle that has widespread implications in everyone’s life — a point that binds us while distinguishing us simultaneously, forming a territory where the boundaries become blurred. In this period of uncertainty, time feels like the one thing that humanity can agree on.
The idea of time with relationship to light has major variations between Los Angeles and Stockholm, making it a hyper-local phenomenon. Additionally, time as it relates to technology, like airplane and train travel, its implications of safety and order, and its ultimate relationship to our mortal bodies, is some of the rich territory we will explore. Sleeping at New Times is a cultural exchange exhibition with the aim to create a site-specific installation in conjunction with Stockholm and Los Angeles-based artworks.
Works include a sculpture by Heidi Edström that extols the effects of time through irregularities in the body; sculptures by Ida-Johanna Lundqvist that reference the body’s reckoning with mortality; a site-specific installation by Megan Mueller that uses scanned images to recreate a bronze sidewalk plaque at a 1-to-1 scale in the exhibition space, highlighting the absurdity of private property; a single-channel video and painting by Sean Noyce that contrasts annual light and dark patterns of Los Angeles and Stockholm; a travel-specific installation by Samuel Scharf that invites the viewer to take a part of the artwork home with them; and a series of sculpture by Katya Usvitsky that mirrors natural rhythms in biosynthesis.
Installation Images
Katya Usvitsky, from left, 1 day, 8 weeks, 5-9 weeks, 2023, nylon, fiberfill, thread, metal hoop, 25 x 25 x 10 cm
From left, Ida-Johanna Lundqvist, Kaput II, 2023, silicone, 25 x 15 x 5 cm; and Sean Noyce, One Interval (Stockholm),, 2023, screen print, acrylic, and dye on unprimed canvas, 152 x 76 cm
From left, Samuel Scharf, Grave Stone T, 2023, Edition of 26, ink on cotton, 81 x 81 cm (each); and It is what you make of it…, 2023, photo print on aluminum, 30 x 30 cm
Samuel Scharf, It is what you make of it…, 2023, photo print on aluminum, 30 x 30 cm
From left: Sean Noyce, One Interval (Stockholm), 2023, screen print, acrylic, and dye on unprimed canvas, 152 x 76 cm; and Lightfall, 2023, single channel video, custom code, dimensions variable
Ida-Johanna Lundqvist, Endless Beginnings, 2022, silicone, 89 x 64 x 64 cm
Katya Usvitsky, 4 weeks and 12 weeks,2023, nylon, fiberfill, thread, metal hoop, 36 x 36 x 10 cm
Megan Mueller, 5th and Grand Ave (detail), 2023, Inkjet prints, 254 x 78 x 104 cm
Ida-Johanna Lundqvist, Endless Beginnings, 2022, silicone, 89 x 64 x 64 cm
Megan Mueller, 5th and Grand Ave, 2023, Inkjet prints, 254 x 78 x 104 cm
Ida-Johanna Lundqvist, Kaput II, 2023, silicone, 25 x 15 x 5 cm
Samuel Scharf, Grave Stone T, 2023, Edition of 26, ink on cotton, 81 x 81 cm (each)
Heidi Edström, Knöl #39.2 (Pleural Effusion) (detail), 2021, bacterial culture in vacuum-shaped plastic, metal stand and silicone tubes, 175 x 45 x 45 cm
From left: Sean Noyce, One Interval (Stockholm), 2023, screen print, acrylic, and dye on unprimed canvas, 152 x 76 cm; and Lightfall, 2023, single channel video, custom code, dimensions variable
Ida-Johanna Lundqvist, Livet, osv (I) (Life, and so on), 2023, silicone, 12 x 5 x 6 cm
Detroit Stockholm
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Opening Reception: Sunday, May 7, 5-9 pm
On view: May 7-14
Hours: Tues-Fri: 5-8pm, Sat-Sun: 2-6pm
Closing reception: Sunday, May 14
Location: Detroit Stockholm, Roslagsgatan 21, 113 55 Stockholm, Sweden