Vibe Overgaard: ”TURNING (BACK)”

On the day before the last day of this year’s MFA Degree Show by the graduates from the Art Academy’s Schools of Visual Arts, you can experience a motion based performance as part of Vibe Overgaard’s work “Turning (Back)”. The performance is developed in collaboration with and performed by dancers and choreographers Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Paolo Gile.

Vibe Overgaard considers official narratives about our history and cultural heritage as political constructs. On this basis, she is concerned with establishing a more personal connection to the past through body and material. She has chosen to immerse herself in the material clay, rather than the monumentalized archaeological artefacts found in ethnographical museums.

Her objective is that a material can hold inherent information about its use through generations – clay has often been serving domestic purposes, to build houses and store food. With an observant attitude she listens to these narratives inscribed, not in history books but in the material itself.

For Afgang 2017 Vibe Overgaard has created a scenography that comprises a half timbered wall. A black vinyl floor marks out a delimited space in the exhibition where unfired vases are placed. The setting will be activated at several points during the exhibition as dancers and choreographers Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Paolo Gile continues the dialogue with the material, pulling the historical references into the present and the exhibition situation.

The performance is free, when admission to the kunsthalle has been paid.