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Matias
Faldbakken
19.1. - 30.1. 2005
Matias Faldbakken’s
show at Galleria Huuto deals with the dialectic between independent
underground culture and the commercial mainstream. This theme is
furthered into questions concerning the grey areas between traditional
positions of ‘power’ and ‘rebellion’ respectively.
Two videos will be presented in the show. One of Us (2005) shows a clip
from Tod Browning’s notorious Freaks (1932), where the ‘freaks’ are
welcoming a new member to their community. Seen in light of
contemporary culture’s fetishsation of uniqueness, the clip distorts
ideas around inclusion in- and exclusion from the normative, and in
that way shakes the hierarchical ladder.
Movie Scenes Where The Problem Gets Bigger If Or When They Fight It
(2004) presents a few examples of the film industry’s formulations
around the idea of co-optation and appropriation of resistance – a
nightmarish fantasy that also tend to haunt cultures of opposition.
A free newspaper is also made for the occasion. It bears the name See
You On The Front Page Of The Last Newspaper Those Motherfuckers Ever
Print and uses the format of the traditional broadsheet newspaper as an
arena for textual and visual improvisation and anarchic semi-satire.
Finally, Faldbakken’s latest novel Macht und Rebel (2002) will be
presented. The book was translated into Finnish last year and published
by Johnny Kniga. The novel tells the story of a left-wing rebel who
teams up with a progressive trend consultant to avenge himself on the
activist community that he has learned to hate deeply.
Faldbakken has exhibited at KunsWerke, Berlin, Kunstverein
München, Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Biennale of Sydney and
Momentum – the Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art. This summer he will
be the Norwegian participant in the Nordic Pavilion at the Biennale of
Venice. He has published two novels and resides in Oslo, Norway.
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