Mette Sterre
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Mette Sterre: Fabulations for the End of the World

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

  • home
  • work
    • projects >
      • Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession (if you don't know, you don't grow)
      • how to catch an octopus in a broken heart
      • Enchanted Field Research _Secret Meetings that shape the World
      • G-string Theory - Attempting to Rise Rijksakademie 2019
      • A circuit of overthinking- a circus of IT girls
      • Hakuna Patata
      • Black Hole Empire
      • Hummelmania
      • panorama messed up (there's everywhere)
      • Saiaragaz- honey you're no seabunny
      • plant * T carnival (rotterdam summer carnival)
      • The End Of Normal
      • Poly P.P.E.
      • Structurealist
      • Long Tongue Sally
      • Altra Motion Quartz
      • Crystal Mette & the Fictions
      • Double Helix ( a quatre mains)
      • iobjectisubject
      • It's a recognized fact
      • A man
      • Princess Lotti
    • exhibitions
    • photography
    • drawings
  • Press
  • about Mette Sterre
    • contact
    • cv