Sundy

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
BRONZED, BRASSED AND COPPERED.
23.7. - 13.8.2022

The installation is viewable from the gallery windows while the gallery is closed for the summer break. The works will be activated during the following times:

Monday - Saturday

12.15 -12.30
13.15 -13.30

14.15 -14.30

15.15 -15.30

16.15 -16.30

17.15 -17.30

18.15 -18.30

Bronzed, brassed and coppered. - installation view

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Sit-up Figure, 2022
Printed polyester taffeta, metal electric fan
120cm high x 140cm long x 58cm wide

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Push-up Figure, 2022
Printed polyester ripstop, metal electric fan
78 cm high x 200 cm long x 58cm wide

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
Headstand Figure, 2022
Printed polyester ripstop, plastic electric fan
186cm high x 70cm wide x 65cm deep

Sundy is pleased to present Bronzed, brassed and coppered., an installation by artist duo Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong.
The installation consists of three inflatable kinetic sculptures that are visible from the gallery windows for three weeks during the summer. At different times of the day they will be activated and engaging in athletic activities - sometimes succeeding sometimes failing at it.

One of the main references for this body of work is British modernist sculptor Henry Moore who placed many of his bronze sculptures in public spaces, especially housing estates, all throughout Britain between the 1940s and 60s. One can be found not far from the gallery at Brandon Estate, near Kennington Park.

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong’s sculptures are in many ways the opposite of Moore’s work: soft, light and foldable, they are engaging in activities that are associated with personal improvement of the body and the mind while Moore’s sculptures are mostly reclining, allowed to rest, to simply be.
The works are also a reflection on contemporary labour politics where terms like freedom and flexibility are often presented as advantages while leaving the workers in increasingly precarious and vulnerable positions. The inflatables make fun of this flexibility, as they are tethered to a source of power to which anyone could pull the plug at any moment.

Aasgaard & Armstrong’s practice focuses on scenographic approaches to sculpture and storytelling around the forming and breakdown of communities. Most of their artworks come into being as props for their serial video project “Days”, an ongoing project that deals with the absurdity of the soap genre to portray the daily lives of a group of precarious workers. The exhibited sculptures were originally part of a set of “Days” and have now taken on the endless task of working out and bettering themselves while the gallery is closed for the summer break.

ELLINOR AURORA AASGAARD (b. 1991 in Kristiansand, Norway)
ZAYNE ARMSTRONG (b. 1986 in California)
both live and work in Oslo and Berlin.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
“Beni: Under the Influencer”, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand (NO) (forthcoming, March)

2022
"Bronzed, brassed and coppered.", Sundy, London, (UK)

2020
“Days”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (NO)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
"Eckbos Legat Jubileumstipend”, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (NO) (forthcoming, May)

2022
“Blowout”, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik (IS) (forthcoming, August)
“garageN”, graw böckler, Berlin (DE)
“Zum schönen Knie I & II”, Doom Spa, Ernst Reuter Platz, Berlin (DE)

PRESENTATIONS & SCREENINGS

2022
“Days (pilot)”, Porn Film Festival Berlin 17, Berlin (DE) (forthcoming, October)

2021
“Radical Film at the Dawn of a New Society”, Radical Film Network Meeting, Berlin (DE)

2019
“Work Sessions––On&For Production”, Nordland kunst- og filmskole, Kabelvåg (NO)
“What is Radical Film?”, Radical Film Network Meeting, Silent Green, Berlin (DE)

RESIDENCIES

2023
Triangle Asterides, Marseilles (FR) (forthcoming)