Anders Dickson at Eliane

Artist: Anders Dickson

Exhibition title: mindquake: back from the head

Venue: Eliane, Bordeaux, France

Date: September 24 – October 20, 2021

Photography: Ludovic Beillard / All images copyright and courtesy of the artist, Eliane, Bordeaux and Wschód Gallery, Warsaw

Yesterday, Alice came to work with three different cakes : a fruit cake, a carrot cake and a chocolate cake with icing. They were for her son’s birthday. The chocolate one was shaped like a bicycle, because her son is a fan of the Tour de France. At his birthday party, in spite of all the work she had put into it, the children had not managed to recognize what the cake represented and especially they hardly ate it. So as not to waste any cake, she decided to bring all the leftovers to work and put them on a table in the back of our meeting room. Throughout the morning, the museum team performed a strange ballet, discreetly crossing the offices toward the back of the room to go eat a piece of cake. What were supposed to be birthday cakes ended their short lived lives in the stomachs of municipal employees. Sometimes what we think of as “The” moment cannot be, and was to be celebrated ends up elsewhere.

-Marion Vasseur Raluy

Anders Dickson (b. 1988, US) – lives and works between The Netherlands and France. He attended De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Kuenste in Karlsruhe. His work has recently been exhibited by 15 Orient Gallery at Balice Hertling, Paris (2021); Izacaia, Vienna (2020); Stadium, Berlin (2020); Wschód Gallery, Warsaw (2019); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Lovaas Projects, Munich (2019); The Oracle, Berlin (2018); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2018); Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2018); The Beach Office, Berlin (2017), and Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2017). Dickson is a member and co-founder of the Netherlands-based artist initiative Root Canal. He is also a recent recipient of the Buning Brongers Prize (NL), and the Mondriaan Funds Grant for Emerging Talent (NL). His upcoming exhibitions include: Wschód, Warsaw; PAKT, Amsterdam; Eliane, Bordeaux [solo exhibitions]; Kayoko Yuki Gallery, Tokyo; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt [group exhibitions]

Exhibition view, mindquake : back from the head, Anders Dickson, Eliane, Bordeaux

Anders Dickson, Mindquake age/keep it together, 2021, cardboard, lack, air drying clay, fishing lure, wire, wood, footboard, acrylic paint, wood filler, vellum, plastic spoon, epoxy, 28 x 25 x 25 cm; Channeled thought, freak out, the cat’s out of the bag, 2021, wire, paper mache, duct tape, foam, felt, wood filler, straw, fishing lure, brass, wire, wood, tape, glue, epoxy, acrylic paint, 28 x 25 x 35 cm

Exhibition view, mindquake : back from the head, Anders Dickson, Eliane, Bordeaux

Anders Dickson, Spit/split: of fear of presence, 2021, acrylic glass, lack, tape, wire, photograph, felt, wood, tinsel, pen, tissue paper, 190 cm x 20 x 20 cm

Anders Dickson, Party lines, 2021, video, 16:44 mins