next exhibition： current exhibition： Carsten Hoeller I always say the same of what you say I always say the opposite of what you say   Apr. 9, Sat. – May. 14, Sat., 2005 Closed on Mon., Sun. and National holidays Carsten Hoeller    Tokyo Twins  2005, Two DVDs SHUGOARTS presents a solo show by Carsten Hoeller. The artist is German and was born in Brussels in 1961. Currently, he lives and works in Stockholm. Following his participation in the Italian pavilion in the previous Venice Biennial, he is going to participate again in this year’s Venice Biennial as the representative of Sweden in the Nordic pavilion together with his partner, Miriam Baeckstroem, who is a leading photographic artist in Sweden. The artist has also had a solo show at Fondazione Prada four years ago. On this occasion, a catalogue was published that shows all of his art works done so far – he calls it a “confession”. In Japan, he participated in the Yokohama Triennial in 2001 with a piece called Flying City, as well as in the Mori Art Museum opening show, Happiness, in 2003, with The Loverfinch. His Kanazawa Sliding Doors, with mirror-finished automatic sliding doors, was installed at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, which has newly opened last October. He also conceived a work for two fitting rooms at Dior Homme in the basement floor of Dior’s Omotesando Branch. Hoeller originally studied Agricultural Sciences, and started his artistic activity in the end of the ‘80ies. Broadly speaking, his work examines and interacts with the behavior and the perception of the self of humans. He aims at arousing uncertainty and perplexity, and the exposure to his works can be a disturbing, joyful, or even unpleasant experience. In his own words, he wants to provide the possibility to “explore the potential of uncertainty, the beauty of it and the challenge it may present to the cultural environment we live in.” One of his new works in the show is Neon Elevator: seven large frames with horizontally arranged neon tubes make a person standing in their middle feel “as if going up in an elevator”. After some exposure, one may well feel as if the whole room is going up, endlessly. This is because of a phenomenon of motion perception discovered in the ‘70ies by Gumtar Johannson, a Swedish psychologist. When we perceive a pattern in motion with the angles of our eyes, at the very end of the visual field, we experience this as the movement of our own body. Indeed, the effect is most strongly felt when one covers the front of the visual field, e.g. by putting both hands before the eyes, letting only the very lateral vision come through. The other work in the show, Tokyo Twins, shows two twins on two separate monitors. One says, “I always say the same of what you say”. The other replies, “I always say the opposite of what you say”. The first one replies, “I always say the opposite of what you say”, replied by “I always say the same of what you say”, and so on, in Japanese. We would be grateful if you could visit us and enjoy Carsten Holler’s first solo show in Japan. atrist's page >> back to exhibitions Copyright 2003 SHUGOARTS. All rights reserved. contact: SHUGOARTS info@shugoarts.com SHUGOARTS website since2003 designed by Kaori Hoya, Created by Kaneko Osamu