ISHA BØHLIN
7 May – 31 May 2025
Isha Bøhling works with painting, drawing, object, video, performance and sculptural sound installation using her voice and music that she writes and performs.
She composes with paint, draws with her voice, and makes site specific sculpture. The materiality of her paintings and sculpture contrasts with the immateriality of her light and sound installations. Its an intuitively led process. Repetitious hand drawn geometries are suspended in optical surfaces on wood while looking for structure in randomness. The nature of wax or resin mediums expose a certain fragility in testament to our temporality that echoes throughout her paintings and installations.
The works respond to time and place drawing ideas around non linear time while thinking about the invisible resonances and patterns around us.
Its an excavation process. She investigates narratives around geometric pattern in the most expanded sense. Song works build upon overlooked histories and themes that create a double narrative that questions the human condition and our need to both understand and control the order of patterns in nature.
For this exhibition invisible sounds are brought to life in the film and throughout the exhibition generated by objects and appliances found in the house itself. Radiators, wine glasses and ovens are brought to life in the sound work in the gallery. in ‘If Objects could Speak’, is ordered into a time sequence resulting in a composition that is both calming and slightly menacing.
The film Metry meaning ‘to measure’ features an architectonic world of geometric material objects, featuring a sound and a song work composed and written by Bohling. Colour and light reflect in prisms of glass, crystals and perspex. A dodecahedron becomes the focus of a performative act held in a dance as if a deity is playing with the fate of the world in our cosmos
Sundial, is an interactive hanging sculpture attached to a wall on a natural sundial. Powder coated metal triangles interrupt real time as shadows play with light and break the pattern. Sounds emanate from the ringing of metal and the viewer is invited to play the triangles, which cause the sculpture to move into different configurations and produce random notes.
Ghost tree is a song work installation by the artist installed in a tree. The songwork suggests a repetitive pattern of needing to both care for nature in conflict with mans nature of wanting to control and exploit it.
