Jørgen Fog 

Phantasmagorical pneumatology

May 4.th. - June 1.st 2024

By taking as a starting point a number of real objects with a prehistory, visual artist Jørgen Fog consciously considers the artwork as a product. It offers itself as a result of a culture industry that produces, distributes, controls, filters, archives - and discards.

At the exhibition in Bonamatic, the works are identified with passages through 'dark ride' tunnels in amusement parks: remnants of a dream world, the technologies of the fantastic, modernity, boredom and the eternal return.

Wild animals, 'stunts', fragments collected from a ghost train on Dyrehavsbakken. Originally, they have reached out with distracting shudder against "the mass's way of amusing itself" and "thus accustoming it to submission".

As before, the works must be instruments in a unified system to exhibit their role: to work with the illusion to avoid deluding themselves. Now in their unoriginal relationship in full view, where the artefacts cling to things without distorting them in their restless transit under the taxidermist's lamp. They tune into the phenomena of the impersonal and alien world to deconstruct the historical material and think the forgotten past into the present. The objects point back to and forward towards a collectivity, which is the interpreting and remembering viewer.

Jacob Kolding.  14. sept. - 12. okt.

Lauge Floris Larsen  2. nov. - 30. nov.

Ulrik Heltoft

Simon Starling