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Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents Mie Mørkeberg’s first solo exhibition HOMEWARD UNBOUND. HOMEWARD UNBOUND is a psychological space, which is violent and smudged but not necessarily private. In Mørkeberg’s new paintings and works on paper fragments from home and the domestic as setting is used in a presentation of recognizable but at the same time very unfamiliar objects and stories. The works are mostly figural but the narrative is not constructed around a traditional plot. Recognizing a chandelier, a rat, a living room, a kitchen or a landscape where a woman carries a child does not explain the parts of the works where black Indian ink covers faces or blotches of muddy acrylic runs across the canvas. Exactly against this background of blurred narratives the experience of something disquieting is crystal clear. This feeling is intensified by the dense visual expression, which Mørkeberg’s deliberate use and juxtaposition of a variety of painting and drawing techniques guaranties. All though the disquieting works are highly subjective and lingers on the difficult boarder between conscious and unconscious something about them seems well known. Maybe because they on a general level show the uncanny mechanism: To recognize something as strange and disturbing because it unexpectedly takes place at home or in oneself. Mie Mørkeberg (1980) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen) in 2006. Previous exhibitions count Produktion A-huset (2005), Tales From The Uncertain Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2006) and Fora – Other Tales From The Uncertain Randers Kunstmuseum (2007). Mie Mørkeberg has recently been granted a workshop possibility at the estimated graphical workshop/gallery Edition Copenhagen. Works   Hjemmefra (Homeward unbound)   Mie Mørkeberg   Press information (Danish)   Text by Sanne Kofod Olsen Text by Sanne Kofod Olsen (Danish)   Backroom Anna Sørensen   The exhibition is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council's Committee for Visual Art   Duration 23.03. - 28.04.2007   Opening 23.03.2007, 5-8pm     Mie Mørkeberg Sandman 2007 oil pastel, crayon, Indian ink and oil on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Sat og indhegning 2007 oil pastel, crayon, Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg The Lasso 2007 crayon, Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Brønden 2006 Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Hvad mon der kommer i fjernsynet i aften 2007 oil pastel, Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 70 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg On The Road 2007 oil pastel, Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg One Message 2007 oil pastel, Indian ink and oil on paper 71 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Med pigge 2007 Indian ink and oil on paper 70 x 81 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Hunden bider 2007 crayon, pencil, pastel, Indian ink and white acrylic on paper 106 x 150 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Untitled 2007 spray, alkyd, oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Untitled 2007 watercolour, spray, alkyd, oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Untitled 2007 spray, alkyd, oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Untitled 2007 spray, alkyd, oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm   Mie Mørkeberg Untitled 2007 spray, alkyd, oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm

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