JOSEFINE LYCHE
Josefine Lyche (b. 1973, Norway) links abstract, post-conceptualist painting with a sort of cosmic, psychedelic, New Age iconography and a more classic painterly idiom. With esoteric injections. Her works are tactile and visually prominent.
Using light and color, Lyche underlines the human perception in ways that make us conscious spectators. Her works are illuminating in both in a literal and figurative sense, making one think of a great beyond; beyond life, beyond what we can actually see and perceive with our senses.
Lyche is educated from The National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (2004) and is represented in museums and collections publicly as well as privately.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
I’ve borrowed the exhibition title from a hip hop, suggestive song by Tommy Genesis. It repeats this sentence and states almost logically that if ‘man’, meaning human, is a man, women must be gods. It got me thinking about history (and the very curated writing of history), mythologies, religions, and politics. Narratives around women, and so the self and gender, are central points for all four artists. I wanted to fill the gallery with ‘cool female energy’ and make a point out of it. The four artists embody exactly that.
Although the exhibition title may indicate that this is a group exhibition, it must not be understood that way. Rather, see it as four parallel solo exhibitions with four prominent artistries. The curatorial approach is simple, but at the same time complicated. These four artists have been chosen because they, in their own way, and over a long period of time, with their artistic work have examined what it means to them to be a woman. It is about myths, ideas, prejudices, one’s own and other people’s expectations, bodily pleasure and change, social control and shame. So, think of the exhibitions as four books, written by individual authors, with different lives, but which make sense to read in light of each other.
Curated by Simone Aalbæk Høyersten