HAUL
BY Sophia Ioannou Gjerding
& NINA MØLLER

26.03.22 - 05.06.22

Video, sound works, sculptures and computer games were part of Regelbau 411’s exhibition Haul created in a collaboration between visual artist Sophia Ioannou Gjerding and composer Nina Møller.

The exhibition title Haul refers to the way we carry ideas with us about the past and the future. The exhibition depicted a vision of a future hunter-gatherer society, where a mixture of prehistoric objects and post-apocalyptic speculations gave shape to the black holes in history and nourished thoughts about an imaginary future.

A PIANO IS TOO HEAVY TO CARRY (2022)

LITTLE BODY, NO SOUND (2022)

GLEANER (2022)

Through the exhibition walked the gatherer. A cyborg-like hybrid of organism and machine, reality and fantasy, past and future. The gatherer does not feed on triumph or defeat, but on repetition, on the circular and the continuous activity of hauling as essential to life. As a counter-narrative to the hunter’s brave exploits, the gatherer represents the eternal hauling-home-of-stuff as part of our history, but also makes clear that the gathering of all the artefacts underpinning our worldview is both selective and subjective.

The exhibition revolved around the writing of stories and of history, and how stories about the future are shaped by stories about the past, which are in turn influenced by our own time and space. With anti-heroic undertones, Gjerding & Møller introduced the gatherer to a post-apocalyptic world, in which visitors – joystick in hand – were able to rewrite the end of the story over and over again.

HEAVY LOAD (2022)

Sophia Ioannou Gjerding (b. 1989) graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in 2018 and was admitted in 2020 to the Danish Arts Foundation’s Career Program for Young Talented Artists. Gjerding creates installations working with techniques such as 3D printing, animation, sound and photogrammetry and has previously exhibited at e.g. ARoS, Organon Exhibition Space and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Nina Møller (b. 1993) graduated from DIEM at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021. Mixing poetry and music, she explores how music can unfold as imaginary sound through what she calls fictional scores. In addition to her solo practice as a composer and performer, Nina Møller is involved in creative collaborations across art forms.

Opening: 26 March 2022, 14.00-16.00.
Exhibition period: 26 March - 5 June 2022.
Opening hours: daily 10.00-17.00. Admission to Regelbau 411 is free. 

Photo credit: Mikkel Kaldal.

The exhibition has been curated by Matilde Best and Simon Thykjær.

The exhibition Haul was kindly supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the foundation Knud Højgaards Fond, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, Plastic Collective and The Animation Workshop.