SIMON FENSHOLM: “IN BETWEEN, I GUESS”
OPENING RECEPTION: 24.04 / 16-20
Fensholm’s works exist in an in-between space - a place where human appearances don’t fully settle, but remain suspended in a kind of motion.
The title points to this “in between” as a state rather than a place: a pause between versions of a person, between what is shown and what has not yet taken shape. “I guess” introduces a hesitation, an almost offhand uncertainty that opens up the works and makes them porous.
The works thus do not become fixed images of identity, but moments of something still in the process of finding itself - or perhaps deliberately avoiding doing so.
SIMON FENSHOLM
IN SIMON FENSHOLM’S PAINTINGS, WE MEET A SPACE THAT SITS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HOPE AND SADNESS, ORDER AND MESS. THE IMAGES ARE NEITHER FULLY REALISTIC NOR FULLY ABSTRACT, BUT EXIST IN A GREY AREA WHERE EMOTIONS ARE FELT MORE THAN EXPLAINED.
BASED IN COPENHAGEN, FENSHOLM WORKS WITH PAINTING TO EXPLORE HOW PEOPLE TRY TO STAY IN CONTROL WHILE LIVING IN A WORLD THAT IS OFTEN UNPREDICTABLE. HIS WORK LOOKS AT THE WAYS WE CREATE STRUCTURE AND MEANING TO KEEP OURSELVES STEADY, EVEN WHEN THINGS AROUND US FEEL UNSTABLE.
THE PAINTINGS FOCUS ON CONTRASTS: WHAT FEELS REAL VERSUS WHAT IS STAGED, CALM VERSUS DISORDER, STRENGTH ALONGSIDE VULNERABILITY. RATHER THAN HIDING WEAKNESS, THE WORK BRINGS ATTENTION TO THE FRAGILE PARTS OF BEING HUMAN AND THE EFFORT IT TAKES JUST TO KEEP GOING.
SEEN TOGETHER, THE PAINTINGS ACT LIKE QUIET OBSERVATIONS OF MODERN LIFE. THEY FORM A THOUGHTFUL PORTRAIT OF OUR TIME, WHERE SOFTNESS AND SENSITIVITY SIT JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE, WAITING TO BE NOTICED.