Entering Into Relation With an Object: An Intimate Connection

2017

Solo exhibition with Camilla Reyman. Curated with with Rosemary Lee.

One morning in 1999 I woke up as something other than myself. I woke up as an object. What ’I’ (there was really no ’I’) was experiencing was not a state of mind, but a state of matter: there was no mind, no subject, no time and no space; there was no ground, no above, no horizon. All there was, was a greyish mist surrounding everything. There was no perception of time, this moment had been going for an eternity and would keep going for an eternity, but in our human real-time it probably just lasted a split second.

An Intimate Connection takes its departure from this 1999 moment, where Camilla Reyman entered an altered state of being, the being of an object; that of a car.

Entering Into Relation With an Object was an ongoing exploration evolving from a shared curiosity toward objects: their proliferation, status and possible lives. Through a series of performative events and exhibitions centered on the perceptual worlds of non-human beings, objects and machines, the project aims to find a sustainable critical stance towards the objects that surround us.

Entering Into Relation With an Object: An Intimate Connection was the first iteration of the series in exhibition form and presented a solo show by Camilla Reyman and a participatory reading of excerpts from the chapter “A Life of Metal” from Jane Bennet’s Vibrant Matter. 

Visitors were invited to take home a necklace as a totem of having witnessed an experience of car-being.

The project was supported by the Danish Art Foundation.