We are pleased to invite you to a solo exhibition with Peter Rothmeier Ravn.
Throughout Peter Ravn's practice, a preoccupation with the individual's place in relation to the group has been central and has come to the fore as a physical, bodily presence. Ravn has created a series of oil paintings for the exhibition, which are based on an investigation of the interface between the autonomous body and a mutually dependent communal body. The new paintings can be thought of as frozen snapshots, showing bodies in various stages of tension and relaxation, and an exploration of what happens when the boundaries between bodies are partially dissolved.
Ravn's sources of inspiration range from 20th-century film iconography to bodily expressions and choreography in modern dance. While creating the new works, he has partly sought inspiration from the American choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, who with her 'contraction and release' technique works with the two extremes of the body, which also describes the body's breath. Ravn's mission is not the dance of modern ballet, but observations of the body's dynamic poses.
The entanglement of bodies can be disturbing because it can be read both as involuntary and claustrophobic and as a community, a mutual dependence. Is the collective common body a nightmare or an ideal? Ravn does not answer but lets us join in his exploration of the boundaries between the self and the others.
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