Adèle Essle Zeiss

Adèle Essle Zeiss
Statolit
Installation and performance (performance dates to be communicated separately)
18.2 – 3.9 2023
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
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“Statolit” is an installation and performance for three dancers that will be performed several times throughout the exhibition period. “Statolit” is on view here as a counterpart to the exhibition on Lars Englund.

“Statolit” was first presented in 2018 at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm and is included in the collection of Moderna Museet. Adèle Essle Zeiss makes use of simple materials—three long wooden planks placed horizontally in the space, a sack of cement strapped to one end of each. At the other sits a dancer, whose body is balanced by the counterweight of the sack. Any little movement changes the elevation of the plank, setting it in motion. A documentation will complement the installation when the dancers are not present. Information on performance dates will be added.

– There are parallels between Essle Zeiss’s way of working with just a few everyday materials, which puts the focus on shifting movement, and Englund’s work. In one conversation with her, it came out that she had reached out to him regarding his sculptures. I’m looking forward to the meeting between these artists’ different expressions in the museum, says Elisabeth Millqvist, Museum Director and curator of the exhibition.

Adèle Essle Zeiss studied to be a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and has a master’s degree in fine art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. “Statolit” was included in the 2022 exhibition “Swedish Acquisitions: Matches” at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2021, Accelerator, a Stockholm University exhibition space, showed the most comprehensive presentation to date of her performance art, and her work has also been featured by MDT, Haninge Konsthall, the Ulvhälls Hällar art park, and in Denmark at Den Frie/Dansehallerne. In April and May, Adèle Essle Zeiss will also be presented, with a different artwork, at Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö.

A PRESS CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE AT MODERNA MUSEET MALMÖ ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 AT 10 AM IN THE PRESENCE OF ELISABETH MILLQVIST AND ADÈLE ESSLE ZEISS.

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