Evil Interiors - Pressrelease Andréhn-Schiptjenko 2003

Palle Torsson at Andréhn-Schiptjenko
20 Feb – 22 March 2003

We are proud to present a new series of works by Palle Torsson in his second solo show at the gallery.

The project Evil Interiors is a reconstruction of environments of concentrated fear and violence from well known movies like the home in A Clockwork Orange, the motel room in Psycho, the storage in Reservoir Dogs and the hotel room in Scarface.

Working with stills from the movie the artist has estimated the architecture and created textures in the computer in order to reconstruct the interior. The reconstruction is created in the first person shooter game Unreal Tournament 2003. The project has resulted in large sized photos.

As in his earlier works such as Minus Porn, Sam and Pippi Examples, Palle Torsson´s interest lies in the scene – constituted here by the viewer and the interior. Examples of scenes are movies, computer games or even a Sunday dinner with your family. A scene is a limited piece of the world, one you have to enter with faith and acceptance, otherwise the theatrical disappears and the scene loses its meaning. Then we will only see boring graphics instead of a game or we will see the violence without the context. The scene demands the viewer’s submission and in
Evil Interiors the viewer´s position is changed through the reduced scene.

Palle Torsson, born 1970, lives and works in Stockholm. His works have recently been seen in shows such as Tokyo Games at Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Connivence at the Biennale de Lyon. The game piece Museum Meltdown, a collaboration with Tobias Bernstrup, will be shown at Kunsthalle Wien in May this year.

The exhibition opens Thursday Feb 20, between 5 and 8 pm. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 11-5 pm and Saturday 12-5 pm. For further information or visuals, please contact the gallery.