Galleri Tom Christoffersen

Mie Mørkeberg By combining various painting and drawing techniques Danish artist Mie Mørkeberg plays the relationship between subject matter and formal features: Sometimes letting the painting correspond into a humorous whole, but mostly making the painting collide into a disturbing story. Although Mørkeberg’s works are figurative and the atmosphere is easily sensed, the exact narrative is always difficult to grasp. The works are composed as if according to the logic of a dream; they contain a whole made up of easily recognizable elements that would not normally appear together. On top of this, black India Ink or red acrylic form rather expressive and smudged areas as paint merge and run violently across the canvas. These expressive traits sets the atmosphere but so does the Biedermeier cabinet, the typhoon, the axe, the cracks of the living room walls and the barren mountain scenery. Mie Mørkeberg appreciates the exaggerated, the artificial, the model rail way, the doll’s house, the horror movie and other scary representations of reality. She often stages a destabilizing uncertainty by using fragments from the domestic settings that provide the works with an uncanny psychological space. This space is not necessarily private or personal but seems to stem from the uncertainty of modern life in general. The dense paintings and works on paper achieve the same intense feeling as a horror movie in which only a few aspects of everyday reality are extrapolated. As when a room is presented as not only empty but also completely deserted and menacingly abandoned. Text in Danish (PDF)


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