OTP Copenhagen is delighted to participate in the 14th edition of CHART Art Fair at Kusthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen; DK) with a group presentation featuring works by Penny Davenport (UK), Stine Deja (DK), Christian John Munks (DK) and Jason Thompson (UK).
Penny Davenport (b. 1979, Inverness; UK)
Penny Davenport’s depictions of anthropomorphic animal characters explore the complexities of human psychology and inter-personal relationships. Having worked for many years in schools for children with specific educational needs, Davenport’s practice shows an acute awareness to how people are socialised and social groups maintained. Her works offer an honest insight into complex individual mental states, often using a “cute” aesthetic as a vehicle to explore the more difficult aspects of human experience. Appearing like half-remembered images from childhood, or individual frames from an incomplete narrative, Davenport’s works in recent years has increasingly emphasised ideas of arrival and escape.
Stine Deja (b. 1986, Horsens; DK)
Stine Deja’s work explores the effects of technological development, relative to our psychology, living conditions and patterns of behaviour. Combining conceptual research with an otherworldly aesthetic, Deja’s work offers an absurd and critical perspective on the future of human culture. Working across total installation, kinetic sculpture, sound installation, video, and 3D animation, Deja’s practice often focuses on the intersection between human biology and digital technology. Previous bodies of work have engaged with the commercial cryogenics industry, in vitro fertilisation treatments, prosthetic enhancements to the human form and the potential for migrating human and animal consciousness to digital avatars.
Christian John Munks (b. 1985, Copenhagen; DK)
Christian John Munks is a painter whose psychologically-charged works are often shaped by an interplay of anxiety and intimacy. His approach to representation combines drawing from life with references to photographs, film stills and other sources of fiction and distortion. Attention in Munks’ works is largely focused towards facial expressions and hand gestures, although sections of patterned fabric also play an important role - often providing a protective or concealing layer. With extraneous objects and scenery stripped out, what emerges in its place is a unique emphasis on expression, on surface, and on that which lies beneath.
Jason Thompson (b. 1970, Liverpool; UK)
Describing his works as hovering between a religious icon and a shed door, Jason Thompson uses found materials and a patchwork process of composition to produce objects that feel like they have been touched by a thousand hands. The artist’s approach to composition mimics evolution: marks either survive and multiply or are replaced and disappear. Working primarily between painting, drawing and a sculptural form of assemblage, Thompson’s abstract visual language has a philosophical underpinning. Namely, that artworks must undergo significant and unexpected change – weathering the process to be transformed by the experience – for them to achieve a sense of depth.
For more information about works inlcuded in the presentation, please contact:
info@otpcopenhagen.com
For more information regarding the fair: www.chartartfair.com