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Mia Marfurt and Jessica Warboys at 1857

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Artists: Mia Marfurt and Jessica Warboys

Exhibition title: Superior Props

Venue: 1857, Oslo, Norway

Date: November 6 – December 13, 2015

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and 1857, Oslo

Mia writes: Water and ink. I’ll ship the machine!

Steffen says: Mia writes: Only water and ink. And she’ll ship the machine.

Stian says: Some vivid colour to counteract November gnawing at my guts.

Jessica says: Some colour and lamps.

Steffen says: Some superior props.

Mia writes: Some brushstrokes as sculptures.

Stian says: Some 1000 W lamps.

Steffen says: To divert attention, concerning one’s_______.

Jenny says: Concerning one’s…?

Steffen says: Well, yeah, concerning your _______.

Stian says: Ixnay the normouseay ratwürstbay.

Hjalmar shrieks: **#%x

Morten smiles: Fishing for attention.

Steffen acknowledges: See now, darkness falls.

Petter folds and welds.

Darkness falls.

Jenny looks.

Morten looks.

Stian looks.

Jessica looks.

Jenny thinks: The sublime.

Jessica thinks: Uncluttered and soft. Different here. Movements, dried, dry dry in the gloom.

Jenny thinks: Gigantic.

Steffen says: They must seem smaller on the Suffolk beach.

Steffen thinks: Salty too.

Petter asks: Pigment in the breakers?

Jessica laughs: Fishermen in tents. I’m sure they think I’m mad! The beach is full of mad ladies.

Stian thinks: Parachuters plummeting into the Atlantic, fighting the heavy cloth.

Petter thinks: The pulling out. The pulling back in. The car trunk soaked.

Petter imagines: Shriveled jellyfish.

Morten says: Indexical.

Jenny says: Fibrous.

Jenny thinks: The Waves [1931].

Mia reminds: The heavy water pulls them down and props them up straight. Remember they can bend and overlay.

Petter thinks: All large and sharp. Theatrical dimesions.

Mia also sends: Computer modulated waves.

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Mia Marfurt, X0548Y1364, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Sea Painting #1, Dunwich, October 2015, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Sea Painting #2, Dunwich, October 2015, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Sea Painting #3, Dunwich, October 2015, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Torch #1, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Torch #2, 2015

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Jessica Warboys, Torch #3, 2015

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Mia Marfurt, Untitled, 2015

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Mia Marfurt, Untitled, 2015

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Mia Marfurt, X0548Y1364, 2015

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Mia Marfurt, X8431Y0172, 2015

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Mia Marfurt, Untitled, 2015

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