Bricks Gallery is proud to present Amorphous Solid, an online exhibition by Danish multidisciplinary artist Sally Santana showing sculptures, paintings, words, sounds and other fragments from her vibrant, media explorations. Deep diving into the human imprint on geology we are taken on a journey entangled in anthropocene memories and notions on post apocalyptic existence.
Fallout from nuclear technologies drifts through our bodies and soil, mutating across space and time. In this slow violence, new superior entities and ecosystems irreversibly emerge. What is created must consequently be accounted for. Santana’s works play with the amorph, the theatrical and almost exaggerated – charming us by its power and alienating us by its toxicity. Where do we, as humans, fit into this imagination of sublime radioactive power? Is there a destined, tragicomic repetition in our handling of things that are, at the end of the day, out of our control? Does our continued lax recognition of the harm we are causing become the darkest joke of our time?
Works, sounds, text fragments, found archival material: Sally Santana
Curator, text: Anne Thomasen
Photos: Theis Mortensen
Sally Santana (b. 1997, Denmark) graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her practice spans across painting, sculpture, performance, and glassblowing, where the metaphysical and spiritual is explored and put into shape. The origin and nature of Santana’s materials, such as glass and clay, play a central role in her expression that often uses the language of the rough and unrefined. Santana has recently moved back to Copenhagen where she now lives and works.
Bricks Extended is Bricks Gallery’s new nomadic exhibition format that explores art's dialogue with different environments. The initiative aspires to create fertile ground for a continuous recalibration of our understanding of contextualization. Inspired by the gallery's open facade facing Blågårdsgade, Bricks Extended wants to contribute with an explorative, parallel program mainly in the gallery's local environment. The program will contain a wide range of exhibitions, events, and content created in close dialogue between the artist, public and private partners, and Bricks Gallery.
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