Martin Sæther
Two note front door, one note back door
24.08. – 15.09.2024Two note front door, one note back door Installation view C106 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, and glue. 11,5x11,5x3cm C106 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, and glue. 11,5x11,5x3cm A-116 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 27x28x3,5cm A-116 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 27x28x3,5cm A-116 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 27x28x3,5cm Two note front door, one note back door Installation view Two note front door, one note back door Installation view 752-T 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 14x18x4cm 752-T 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 14x18x4cm Two note front door, one note back door Installation view DE-821 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 17x24x3,5cm DE-821 2024 Paper-faced foam board, paper tape, glue 17x24x3,5cm
What are the arteries of architectural organs, held together by hidden synthetic pumps, categorical beacons, and landlordian spies? You can't unsee them once you've seen them. Lurking above and beneath. Faded, trashed, nutritious, prepositioned for your pleasure and attention. Covered with beams, fingerprints, and hollow promises. Friends with outlets that don't move. Interior inferior to exterior vastness. The least pretentious, yet banging.
Familiar. Plastic in theory. They make announcements from the right places at the right time. Although I wouldn't make a snare drum out of it, they loosely manifest their universal variety as a means of contemplation, at least in their new habitat you've been presented with. Resembling the color of coleslaw. Probably dying of too much nicotine.
Riddle me this. - Lars Nordby
Martin Sæther lives and works in Oslo. Sæther received his MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Notable exhibitions include Gjenboer, VI, VII, Oslo; Min Strie, Femtensesse, Oslo; June Art Fair, Basel; Paper Planes, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo; Blunk, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger; Rute, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer; Post, Destiny’s Atelier and Toile, Young Artists’ Society (UKS), Oslo.
The exhibition is supported by OCA - Office of Contemporary Art in Norway. Thanks to Tequila Bar Fnky Mnky for free drinks on the opening night.