Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Henrik Olesen at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 26 June – 21 October, 2019.
With new essays by Helena Tatay, Lars Bang Larsen, Paul B. Preciado and Dodie Bellamy.
Henrik Olesen explores, with a conceptually rigorous approach, the structures of power relations and systems of knowledge, revealing some of their inherent logics, those which contribute to social and political regularisation.
Olesen employs cheap, everyday materials to make collages, posters, texts, sculptures, installations and architectural interventions which critically examine contemporary culture and socially disseminated normalisations, thereby questioning quotidian conventions in family structures, the construction of identities and their historiography, the media, legal discourses, art history, and other sources. (Exhibition publicity)
