Andrea Jespersen & Christine Niehoff

‘out of space’

Outer space is the stage for many of mankind’s greatest dreams and aspirations, clouded by ideologies, myths, and conspiracy theories. It is in outer space that the human lack of understanding and knowledge gives us licence to positively wonder at the possibilities we haven’t even thought about.

For ‘out of space’ Andrea Jespersen and Christine Niehoff have chosen very different approaches in their development of new works made specifically for this show at Intermedia Gallery.

Jespersen’s works are centred around an investigation into superstring theory with  it’s complexities of 11 dimensions that are hard to fathom. Our intense quest for knowledge is to be celebrated, but equally Jespersen enjoys that we are far from having found all the clues, which she hopes will be our redemption. Niehoff’s work explores the grey area where reality and fiction overlap; the narrative space of individual identity situated at the crossing-over point between public and private. For the first astronauts the mythical dream of space became personal reality. In his most public moment, the first man in space was also most alone.

For ‘out of space’ Jespersen will be showing work centred around our abstracted knowledge of Space. A series of eleven drawings give homage to the possibility of hidden dimensions, a sculptural constellation of a patchwork in a shape inspired by an image of two galaxies colliding, six triangle steel structures and a sterling silver object. Niehoff has recently rediscovered the potential of painting as a medium and is using it in combination with moving image. For this show she has made a new series of work on astronaut Yuri Gagarin, consisting of paintings and an animated video.

To see documentation of the exhibition click here.

For further info please visit; www.jespersen.co.uk & www.christine-niehoff.net