Nat Bloch Gregersen: Swallowing Stones
16 nov 201815 dec 2018

‘…I grab the stone and pull it out of the pocket. I press it against my lips and feel the teeth behind them. I slip it past the teeth and into my mouth. It must be so dark in there, in my stomach. I swallow and find myself in a cave. The walls and the ceiling are covered in salt crystals. Here I will lick my wounds. I pull my hands and arms along the cobbled walls of the cave, back and forth. The crystals rub against my sticky palms; my arms have found a rhythm now. Like a cow’s tongue licking a salt stone, slowly carving its own self care…’
Weathering (2018) by Nat Bloch Gregersen

Nat Bloch Gregersen: Stone VII. Foto: Silas Emmery

Nat Bloch Gregersen works with installation, sculpture, text and reading. Materials like silicone, resin, salt, textile and light are staged in viscous and porous installations in a three dimensional space. By working with a dualistic approach, displacements occur between form and material; the heavy and light, the invisible and visible, the fixed and liquid. With a playful approach across different media, Bloch Gregersen unfolds a layered body of work that vibrates between the figurative and abstract, the verbal and nonverbal and word and image.

The title Swallowing Stones has grown from the sculptural works in the series Synthetic Collection. The series consists of transparent (1:1) resin sculptures of found natural stone with the ability to become self-luminous when exposed to UV lighting. The physical form of a stone and the synthetic material characteristics create a shift in perception and cause the sculptures to inhabit a more mysterious character. In the series and in the text work questions of the physical relation between human, nature and time are in play; a desire for physical closeness and (oral) touch as a gesture of consumption and translation.

In the show Bloch Gregersen presents an installation with the fluorescent stone sculptures from Synthetic Collection alongside silk fabric works and a series of collaborative neon works. The installatoric approach in the show revolves around the staging of layers of light and transparent materials; how they activate and penetrate each other, creating a subtle compound statement across the content of the individual works. The neon signs have been created in a previous collaboration between Nat Bloch Gregersen and Matilde Mørk (DK) and revolves around the act of dwelling and collaborative processes. Performativity, punctuation, new age culture, bodily incentives and true’isms are investigated through an abstract sign language and the transformation from two dimensional hand drawings into three dimensional neon lights.

Kilde: Alice Folker Gallery

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Nat Bloch Gregersen: Swallowing Stones
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