22 Oct 2012

Per Hüttner - Unhidden at Lambert gallery

Lambert Gallery is proud to announce a solo new exhibition by Per Hüttner - the second at the gallery. For the exhibition Hüttner has moved the storage room into the gallery and the gallery into the storage room. Through this gesture, he invites the audience to reflect on how our gaze is directed and moves according to patterns, rather than evoking the curiosity to discover the world that surrounds us.

The storage room of the gallery has been turned into a single person screening room where the visitor can watch a short 16mm film. It shows images that the artist has taken on beaches in Greece, Italy, Brazil, China and France that depict faceless bodies in unexpected situations that reveal another form of corporeal beauty than the one we are used to meet. The solitude of the viewer underline both the voyeuristic quality of the images and make allusions to a wide variety of enjoyable and more embarrassing situations that a sole human being can behold a follow human's body.

The contents of the Gallery's storage room, is displayed in a sculptural fashion in the space. The actual print of the 16mm film will also displayed so that the visitor can scrutinize the object to make out individual images of human flesh.

The exhibition builds on similar contextual swaps by the artist, like the critically acclaimed Curatorial Market at Cuchifritos and Essex St. Market, New York in 2002 where he moved the market into the gallery and the gallery into the market; (In)Visible Dialogues in Stockholm in 2011 that deliberately blurred the lines between academic lecture and artistic performance. But also his ongoing investigation of temporality and the human body in projects like La Durée (at Rockbund museum in Shanghai, Miramar in Porto, the Observatory in Besançon, Tate Modern in London and Tesla Museum in Belgrade) and the video project Imminent that has been shown public institutions in China, Sweden and the US.

Per Hüttner (b. 1967) is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Paris, France. He has shown extensively in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, solo exhibitions include >unkown at Zendai Contemporary in Shanghai, Repetitive Time at Göteborgs konstmuseum, and I am a Curator at Chisenhale Gallery in London. Participation in group shows include The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, the Hayward Gallery, London and he has performed at Tate Britain and the Venice Biennial.