JESPER THOUR

Utan faktisk fara / harmless in reality

26/ 3 - 25/4

“Thour constructs situations: self-contained worlds inhabited by tigers, boys with matches, hunters, and encroaching vegetation. There is a lightness in the materials, in the use of MDF and the visual language of children’s book illustration, yet a darker undercurrent persists, a quiet sense of threat. As we move through these environments, we begin to wonder what calls us forward. Is it something benevolent, or are we being drawn, like by a Bäckahästen figure from folklore, toward an uncertain end? Are we free to move, or is our freedom like a dog’s in a dog run — unleashed, yet still inside a fence?

Thour’s world's touch something fundamental and human — our persistent need for something to lean on; a story, religion, plan, structure, something to believe in and blame. The exhibitions do not instruct or resolve, they unfold as constellations in which we may catch sight of ourselves.” Read the full text here.

Read the review about the exhibition in Omkonst