MARIUS ENGH: "Lycanthropic Chamber"
STANDARD (OSLO)
PRESS RELEASE
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MARIUS ENGH
"LYCANTHROPIC CHAMBER"
21.02.-29.03.2008 / PREVIEW: 21.02.2008 / 19:00-21:00
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SCENE I & SCENE II
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"Home Sum; Nihil humani a me alienum puto". ["I am a man; Nothing human is alien to me."]
- Terentius (185-159 BC), "Heauton Timorumenos"
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"In vain he attempted to speak; from that very instant
His jaws were bespluttered with foam, and only he thristed
For bloos, as he raget amongst flocks and panted for slaugther.
His vesture was changed into hair, his limbs became crooked;
A wolf, he retains yet large of his ancient expresion,
Hoary he is as afore, his countenance rabid,
His eyes glitter savagely still, the picture of fury."
-Ovid (43 BC- 17 AC), "Metamorphoses"
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"We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of with, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuos and accessible to study... The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros... aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it. Ating in this way, both the instincts...would be endeavouring to re-establish a state of things that was sidturbed by the emergence of life. The emergene of life would thus eb the cause of the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death: and life itself would be a conflict and comprimse betwwen thse two trends."
-Sigmund Freud, "The Ego and the Id", 1923
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This is Marius Engh's second solo exhibition at STANDARD (OSLO). Other recent exhibitions include "Streets Beyond the Cliché" ar Witte de With, "Villa Jelmini" at Kunsthalle Bern, "The Norwegian Sculptur Biennal" at The Vigeland Museum un Oslo and "Skate Culture" at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen / Preus Museum, Hoten.
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Installation photography Frode Fjerdingstad
