The Market (2021)

AN EXHIBITION

For centuries market life, in its diversity and explosive social nature, has folded artists, merchants, and peddlers into its structural fabric. Following the outbreak of the corona pandemic, the market space has gained a new place in our consciousness as the epicenter of contagion. The exhibition The Market positions its point of departure from this nullified space. At Simian, in the proximity of the shopping mall Field’s, the spectator enters a delusional view of a mall - an abandoned, haunted market with stalls of many kinds, evolving in a state of advanced dissolution.

The Market was awarded by The Danish Arts Foundation

Tickets: Free

Dates & Times:
29th of May to 3rd of July 2021
(Thursday to Saturday 12:00 - 17:00)

Place: SIMIAN Exhibition Space, Kay Fiskers Plads 17, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark

Press Quotes:

"The most incredible part of the experience is the sneaking suspicion that these lifeless parallel destinies in a basement in the Ørestad district come so close to the warm lives we carry out with a smug sense of entitlement. [...] Perhaps it is the sense of having the world pulled down in front of my face like a tight hat and having my gaze and my guts cut open by a haunted reality. Perhaps it is the desire to alternately possess this world and vomit it out that clings to my body long after I’ve left the basement. Like life itself, The Market resembles a declaration of love and a death sentence."
– Nanna Friis, Kunstkritikk

"Det ligner på samme tid efterladenskaberne fra en skønhedskonkurrence, en slikbutik, et overskudslager og en naturreligiøs messe. Materialerne føles som fanget mellem flere tider: en let genkendelig forbrugskultur og en præmoderne jægersamler-religion. På overbevisende facon peger de to tider, på en underligt inciterende, dystopisk fremtid."
– Johann Sten Nielsen, Information

"Vi er dybt nede i en kælderkold abjekt-suppe – kroppens affaldsprodukter (hår, negle, hud) men i kunstig version. Et mareridt, hvor alt desuden, fra telte til tøj, er elegant holdt i samme pastelfarvede spektrum af creme, lyserød, mintgrøn, lyseblå."
– Pernille Albrethsen, Kunstrevy

"SIGNA formår med utrolig æstetisk præcision at skabe en meget livagtig oplevelse af markedspladsens dobbelte position, hvor både fristelse og frastødning konstant veksler i øje og krop."
– Statens Kunstfond