Installation view of Kunstkameras in Faith is a Cascade at March Waters, Margate (UK), 2022.
3D print in nylon, tinted acrylic case 13x13x13 cm, nylon rope
Photographs by Beth Saunders.
"Kunstkamera, i saw you / saved Piter" (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
"Kunstkamera, i saw you / saved Piter" (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
“Kunstkamera Boro-da / Boro-net” (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
“Kunstkamera Boro-da / Boro-net” (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
Installation view of Kunstkameras in Callings From the Deep at Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (AU), 2022.
Exhibition Text:
Three boxes descend from the ceiling, as if being passed down to us from somewhere unknown. Each of these containers showcases a black object – a distorted compass, a twisted rabbit and a pair of wavey scissors seemingly dancing on the tip of a shoe.
Like curiosities in a kunstkammer, these symbolic objects appear like messengers from a fantasy world or mystical sphere. The rabbit in the box looks at you in a cunning way. The ancient philosopher Flavius Philostratus described rabbits as possessing “a certain power to produce love”, seducing their chosen ones by magic art. The compass with its dysfunctional form, while generally standing for orientation and direction, seems to highlight the value of the very opposite; chaos and messy entanglements. Scissors, at last, are often read as representing the line between life and death, dividing time from non-time and are equally iconic in queer culture. Layering different, also fictional temporalities, Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger is interested in the queering of time and perception.
The deviant cosmologies that she crafts, are presented to us as contained and mobile futurabilities, ready at hand, there to unpack. In so doing, she disrupts the causal linearity of the everyday and urges us to use our own imagination and fantasy - to think in dream-time.
Edited text by Frederike Sperling
Photographs by Lea Sonderegger
“Kunstkamera Boro-da / Boro-net” (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
“Kunstkamera, compass.” (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
"Kunstkamera, i saw you / saved Piter" (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
Installation view of Kunstkameras in Faith is a Cascade at Seager Gallery, London (UK), 2021.
Photographs by Paul Chapellier.
"Kunstkamera, i saw you / saved Piter" (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
“Kunstkamera Boro-da / Boro-net” (13cm x 13cm x 13cm). 3D print in nylon, acrylic case
