Art

Lello // Arnell - Echo Chamber

Sssukiii | Tuesday 3 July, 2012 15:37

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Lello // Arnell – Echo Chamber
Beers.Lambert Contemporary, ECI
Until August 12th

Jørgen Craig Lello & Tobias Arnell are a leading duo, currently making waves on both the Norwegian and wider contemporary art scenes.

Beers.Lambert present the pair’s first solo exhibition in the UK. This challenges what viewers expect to see, deconstructing shapes and motifs from everyday life.

The exhibition combines photography, collage and painting to do this, resulting in a monotone, modernist aesthetic. On closer viewing we realise this is highly reductive and quite political. For example a world map is reversed, rendering it loaded with commentary, perhaps on its Western bias, yet useless.

What appears to be a lamp is presented as a dark deformed and useless sculpture. Their work frustrates and is disquieting at times. This makes the viewer appreciate the value of ergonomic design and the political potential of objects.

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