DOUBLE SUNSET Paula Duvå and Mads Holm 18.05 – 01.07.2023

past exhibition

18 May

Announcement

Oblong is excited to present Double Sunset, an exhibition by Paula Duvå (b. 1991) and Mads Holm (b.1990). The exhibition shows ten new large-format works, co-authored by the artists.

Oblong and Double Sunset are supported by Statens Kunstfond, Politiken-Fonden & Frederiksberg Kommune. The artist talk is supported by Politiken-Fonden.

Curator: Jonathan Lieb

Coordinator: Casper Cosmus Alsøe

Graphic Design: Ray Weng

Related Programming

Opening on Thursday 18th May 17.00–21.00, sponsored by Herslev Bryghus

As part of Copenhagen Photo Festival, there will be an artist talk with Paula and Mads on Thursday 8th June at 19.00.

Exhibition Statement

A double sunset is an astro-geographical phenomenon in which the sun appears to set twice in the same evening, when viewed from a specific point. This rare event is as much an optical illusion as it is a very real experience for the observer. Like a double sunset, Duvå and Holm’s new work oscillates between the real and fictional and challenges, by its staged nature, photography’s conventional ties to reality.

Photographed in ultra-high resolution, Double Sunset captures a clarity and definition beyond the capabilities of the human eye. Concerned with artifice and power, the work becomes a kind of investigation of sight and the practice of seeing. The universe Double Sunset creates holds an uncanny sense of fragility. Disparate scenes, portraits and abstract textures share a sense of foreboding. Ostensibly beautiful and dreamlike, there lurks within them a subdued violence.

As we enter a new age defined by the impact mankind has had on the planet, it is worth reminding ourselves that we remain vulnerable to the forces of nature. Double Sunset alludes to these forces and to the fragility and beauty of human existence.

Artists

Mads Holm (1990) is a photographer, teacher and writer. Paula Duvå (1991) is an artist. Duvå and Holm have collaborated since 2015. In 2017 they created the exhibition project I Look at War which has been shown at Banja Rathnov Galleri og Kunsthandel in Copenhagen and at Soiz Galerie in Passau, Germany. In 2022 they founded Foto Studio which they run on a daily basis next to their common and individual practices.