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Opening: Friday November 17:00-21:0014.11-14.12.2025
Thursday-Friday 15:00-18:00
Saturday-Sunday 12:00-16:00
Galleri CC proudly presents Monolith with Irys Kluska, Manja Ebert and Johan Melander. The artists have been selected through our annual open call. Monolith showcases large-scale sculptural works with a strong relation to acts and systems of transformation. It is three distinctly different artistic practices, yet united by their proximity between process and reception and an ability to capture unity in experience rather than take it apart.
Irys Kluska
It is important to me to treat ceramics as a sport. By making and destroying one can continue to do it endlessly, or at least till the material gives out. I’m interested in the exercise of endless making, breaking with a hammer, and doing something else with the shards - while tiring the body of the one who makes out - and then doing it again.
I work with circular destruction - I use elements of earlier setups, broken sculptures, pieces ripped out of earlier installations. Once fired, ceramics become large pieces of shed skin - hard, mostly useless and impossible to mould into something else. I use these pieces as building blocks, taking advantage of the shape-creating decisions that the previous destructions made.
The moment of destruction creates a blast of delicious, conflicted, dramatic feelings. It is both exciting and scary to see controlled demolition. The change of shape is often difficult to swallow - we grieve the death of the object, glue it back together as it was, getting ourselves stuck in the past. Every decision results in some form of destruction. To walk we have to step, to move on we have to break bonds.
How many times will I need to shift my body into a new world? Every morning, every new person creates me a new face. I practice the shifting endlessly. I don’t promise an abrupt end - every destruction is followed by something, building something new, and it keeps going. The material never gets to rest. The material I am made of, after everything I do to it, all my desperate attempts to scratch some agency out of the meaty wall of reality, will also not get to rest. No atom ever gets to rest. The sport of breaking and restructuring is eternal.
iryskluska.com
Manja Ebert
In my artistic practice as a media artist, I engage intensively with the politics of images and the developments of the moving image, critically examining both the content and the medium itself. For me, aesthetics are inseparably linked to content and serve as a means of conveying it in a nuanced way. Thematically, my work explores the construction of identity through technology, the reflection of media processes, and the playful blending of surveillance mechanisms within communication media.
A key focus of my work is the examination of contemporary digital phenomena and their transfer into physical space. By integrating social, political, ecological, and economic aspects into my research, I create media-based spatial collages and sculptural video installations that make digital processes physically tangible. In doing so, mechanisms of surveillance, self-presentation, and control in communication media become visible.
The use of material from social networks, live streaming platforms, and social apps plays a central role in my work. Beyond visual analysis, I uncover the economies and operational mechanisms of these platforms, offering a critical perspective on the social dynamics that emerge through technology and communication. I am particularly interested in the playful entanglement of surveillance technologies and their omnipresence, which generates habituation effects and increasing tolerance among users.
manjaebert.de
Johan Melander
Johan Melander primarily works with drawing, painting and sculpture. He blends fiction and reality into narrative paintings and creates sculptural objects which still have a strong, tangible connection to painting. Johan works intuitively, through a think-with-hands process in a narrative tradition. The creative process, technique and material all contribute to the expression of the work. There is a dynamic relationship between the two- and three-dimensional in his works, and the narrative is equally found in the space between the works, as it is in each single work.
johanmelander.se
Curator: Salka Hellbacka and Arngrímur Borgþórsson
The exhibition is supported by Malmö Stad and KULTURRÅDET.
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