Mette Sterre: Fabulations for the End of the World
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Liminal encounters of mineral-looking entities in the dark
entangling and disentangling in unpredictable formations. A primal machine reaches out for touch – her skin is soft, and she is craving for love. Contacts. Collisions. Stillness. The atmosphere is saturated with elementary charge, animating all matter alike. Mette Sterre’s creations escape fixed definitions. They exceed performance practice, installation, digital technologies, body masks making and sculpture – potentially expanding their territories without limits. By entering her work we are cast into the materialisation of her mind processes: an unpredictable participatory and sensorial experience. The environments created by the artist are loaded with transformative energetic fields that animate new worlds in which we encounter organic and inorganic living organisms and speculative fictions. The undecipherable glowing matter unfolds in front of us. What is it made of? Animators in costumes, robots, sounds and visuals unravel in anarchic formalisms and otherworldly movements, acting as a strategy for disorientation, de-centering and trespassing spatial parameters, linear time and human certainties. Creatures that seem to be assembled into hybrid and chimeric formulations – partly machines, monsters or nonhumans – are occupying the same space as us. Rather than being ego-centered actors within a system that still oppresses those that are ‘less than human’, Sterre’s creations celebrate our variance through dissonance, in a dimension of both fear and ecstasy. Are we not hybrids yet? Formed of bacteria, minerals, fluids and parasites, we are also one with the environment, in a vitalistic, metamorphic processes. Simultaneously, we are slowly and surely also decomposing... In this ecosystem, even rocks have agency. Text by Giulia Casalini, phd candidate Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton, London |
Currently on Show
Never Ending Talkshow at No Limits Arts Castle, Amsterdam duo - exhibition with Jonathan de Regt until 12th of February 2023 Upcoming 17th of February, Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Vspace curated by Monster Chetwynd www.massimodecarlo.com/vspace/ The Grand Palace of Everything, Nest, Den Haag 3rd of March - 7th of May 2023 https://nestruimte.nl/en/ Anomorphous Landscapes, 38CC Delft, 13th of May 2023 On Marvellous Things, Kunsthal de Kade, Amersfoort 2023 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn Solo Show June 2021 Previous Alternative Miss World Competition - Shakespeare Globe Theater London generously supported by Stichting Stokroos 2022 Spectre, Nightmare at Roopdkapje Rotterdam with Simon Keizer, Natalia Sorzano, Ratri Notosudirdjo,and Loulou Saintsbury 2022 Manifesta 14 Bienale “It matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise” 22.7.2022 - 30.10.2022 creatiev mediator by Catherine Nichols 9th floor Grand Hotel, Pristina, Kosovo Habitat Multiform project space Viervaart, Groede Netherlands with Maartje Korstanje and Tanja Smeets curated by Iris Cornelisse It's your birthday curated by Nina Folkersma at Capital C Gallery, Weesperplein 4, Amsterdam 11th of may of until 13th of August 2022 |