Sophie Jung at Casino Luxembourg

Artist: Sophie Jung

Exhibition title: They Might Stay The Night

Venue: Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Date: March 7 – October 25, 2020

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Casino Luxembourg

Sincerity Condition.

Working across text, sound, sculpture and generally considered a performance artist reading or ad lib-ing the sculptures’ polyvocal excursions, They Might Stay The Night is the artist’s first major sculptural (only) show. An assembly of agents, a collection of uncollectables, they stand as a network of abiding incompletion, an ever-changing choir of urgencies and pleasures, traumas and manifestations that communally relay between dominant and minor themes with their materi a list conditions and conditionings go on try to list en loudly. Try to matter, they try to matter as matter that is both legible utensil, metaphoric apparition and autonomous plurality on a mission or asleep. Made from found, stolen, borrowed and haphazardly made attributes,

confused limbs of limbo’tic inhabitems itants itants I tanz noch lang nicht ausgetantzt, jahrzehntel unverbracht the ancient re gymnasts can’t go home yet rehearsal for better condiction ex- or elocution less on out of nightm air is crisp the sky is blue,

they are set in a space made/not made (who can tell these days the days oh the days) for them, against a pictouresque, counter-simulacric twee yet structurally brutal backdrop of Luxembourg’s National Savings Bank (on which Disney famously modelled his theme park), the former Gestapo villa, National symbols and multinationals’ headquarters upon headquartered and feathered on freshly-tarred roads and in the far distance, overlooking what a piece of tourist couture in the giftshop down the road calls “the original country of dreams”. Within the Mediterranean Baroque of the Casino Luxembourg they mimic and counter, in a permanent haze of excited exhaustion, unsure of where to next, ready to roll a pair of dice or raid a pair of banks or just to sleep. For a bit, or a good long time. Collectively interrupted and corrupted views with eyes patched around and into a greater hole. A troupe of awkward comrades, not good exactly, but full of leaky compassion and anti-heroic manoeuvres, they query metaphoric apparition by way of delving into subconscious scripting territories around hallucinations of materialist manifestations.

Yesterday’s players whisper into the s’hell of significance they howl across the smoker’s valley and through the tower chained at the b’ankles too skinny for capt you’re one of us or are you one of us? Are you one or are you many times asked never respondered the result in the tip of my toe is sprained across the floor in bitesized nuggets. Tree times a slaythee if you breathe a word. What even is a word a world I was going to say word. On the streets is nothing, a decomposed entity sighing out of tune. Not one showed up to their refinal floor-bored ambulation before always already having had your back turned on you through a mirror staged a coup of milk of tears of ripped up bed spring’s been cancelled too so we lie softer. Such as: Stability in ruffled feathers. Not as: Sweet dreams in tethers cos when the bailiffs come to change the locks on your pretty little head you skip to the beat of no drum roll over and contract in time with a hungry intest in tests they didn’t show up the stats and figures were on our side and drooping but backstage. Wouldn’t you too, you’ve been walking loops for too long to adjust pace in a place unlevelled too shevelled for peace by peace the n/r ations run out of a hoard a crowd a pit full of come rad raids the cupboards and dims the light, some Re spite in a beam of lied about the pillar of socie a sigh. Aspirational constcriptures rolled up and shoved from palm to palm off offer of a better deal. The pie chart’er flight of fancy sectioned into seg mental image or an orange or anger in the wake of a tangerinable resultimately specululuation. I have yet to pro fit for work despite respirational constrictions. All or nothing lab or no thing for a wreath for a wrath.

Hands up hands down hands wringing all around my ears the bell announces a tie: for and against sincerity sin certinty con dition condiction.

Ancore!

A chore!

Sophie Jung, They Might Stay The Night, exhibition view, Casino Luxembourg, The Palmed Off icer, 2020, Aquascrotum, dying palm, 13 leotards, ceramic palm

Sophie Jung, The Golden Why-oh-whyfe, 2020, Gypsum, driftwood, sink base, cricket pad

Sophie Jung, They Might Stay The Night, exhibition view, Casino Luxembourg, The shelter (peel off / or ange r), 2020, The Queen (detail), 2020, The Unseating, 2020

Sophie Jung, The shelter (peel off / or ange r) (detail), 2020, Wooden oranges, silver paint, corrugated roofing sheets, drawing, photograph I and photograph II, giant acrylic clothes peg

Sophie Jung, The Queen, 2020, The Ancient Regime’s lower half, hyena’s tail

Sophie Jung, Raidiactors and the Good Scent (detail), 2020, Fox fur, radiator, devalued currency, Henry Mooreish busts

Sophie Jung, Raidiactors and the Good Scent, 2020, Fox fur, radiator, devalued currency, Henry Mooreish busts

Sophie Jung, The Sca fold, 2020, Bleached coral, molten plastic, scaffold plank, museum trolley, velvet imposters

Sophie Jung, The Pointe (detail), 2020, Metal window barrier, ballet shoes, latex breast-balls, silver vinyl, duck silhouette sticke

Sophie Jung, The Pointe (detail), 2020, Metal window barrier, ballet shoes, latex breast-balls, silver vinyl, duck silhouette sticker

Sophie Jung, The Pointe, 2020, Metal window barrier, ballet shoes, latex breast-balls, silver vinyl, duck silhouette sticker (Vocal Rage) The Ancore (detail), 2020, Anchor, string, pop shield, cat’s claws, blue-tac, silver vinyl

Sophie Jung, (Vocal Rage) The Ancore (detail), 2020, Anchor, string, pop shield, cat’s claws, blue-tac, silver vinyl

Sophie Jung, The Best, 2020, Cardboard box, miniature three-piece suite, light switches

Sophie Jung, The Sleazer, 2020, Gaming chair, stickers, art-deco model design chairs, leotard, sound file

Sophie Jung, The Scientist, 2020, Concrete bollard, wig, fishbones, test tubes

Sophie Jung, The cup underfloweth against a will she won’t she / The Ra bit skint, 2020, Dentist chair, rabbit fur, bunny PJs, rusty wire, drum head, A5 folder with ink cup (Regula Hügli)

Sophie Jung, The Climber, 2020, Social ladder (existing work by Lang Baumann), wife-beater, Pseudocyesis And The Horder (mercurial troglo died), 2020, Fluorescent light tubes, light cover

Sophie Jung, The Matrimoney all hanging (detail), 2020 Mattresses, 4 types of string, industrial ventilator

Sophie Jung, The Matrimoney all hanging, 2020, Mattresses, 4 types of string, industrial ventilator

Sophie Jung, The His in Hermit, 2020, Airplane nose, feet, hair

Sophie Jung, The Open D’Or not. (The Flasher), 2020, Airplane door (Herr Stein), glass, two C-Prints by the artist 2005

Sophie Jung, The shelter (peel off / or ange r) (detail), 2020, Wooden oranges, silver paint, corrugated roofing sheets, drawing, photograph I and photograph II, giant acrylic clothes peg

Sophie Jung, The shelter (peel off / or ange r), 2020, Wooden oranges, silver paint, corrugated roofing sheets, drawing, photograph I and photograph II, giant acrylic clothes peg

Sophie Jung, The Post-Imposter (later The Expansion: not trickled but drowned) (detail), 2020 Corrugated roofing sheet, expanding foam, gypsum

Sophie Jung, The Dan ser vice / Her mess, 2020, Bodysuit, copper pole, cling film, yellow foam, spray paint, black film wrap

Sophie Jung, The Warrior, 2020, Iron ship door, photograph of a number of women who chose to wear their colliers over their blouse and right they are, industrial paper roll, camera obscura image by the artist 2007, tree branch

Sophie Jung, The Warrior (detail), 2020, Iron ship door, photograph of a number of women who chose to wear their colliers over their blouse and right they are, industrial paper roll, camera obscura image by the artist 2007, tree branch

Sophie Jung, They Might Stay The Night, exhibition view, Casino Luxembourg The Warrior, 2020, The Dan ser vice / Her mess, 2020, The Post-Imposter (later The Expansion: not trickled but drowned) (detail), 2020

Sophie Jung, The High Risers (on nobody’s cost cutting loo rolls into armless agents) (detail), 2020 Perspex corners, toilet rolls

Sophie Jung, The High Risers (on nobody’s cost cutting loo rolls into armless agents), 2020 Perspex corners, toilet rolls

Sophie Jung, The Kamele on a the theme of no ah’s patri (moi ne) arch ene me in the eye of the needless, 2020, Camel, black film wrap, glider, cat, underpants (half off), silver vinyl, C-Print by the artist 2010, masking tape shilouetting the National Savings Bank -the view from the Ballroom

Sophie Jung, The Kamele on a the theme of no ah’s patri (moi ne) arch ene me in the eye of the needless (detasil), 2020, Camel, black film wrap, glider, cat, underpants (half off), silver vinyl, C-Print by the artist 2010, masking tape shilouetting the National Savings Bank -the view from the Ballroom

Sophie Jung, The pro let air in open the fly the ladder is slipping / The Heist it’s called a threevolution, 2020, Workers’ trousers, silk and three legged, photocopies, medium, stone, view across at the the National Savings Bank: the Spuerkees castle

Sophie Jung, The pro let air in open the fly the ladder is slipping / The Heist it’s called a threevolution (detail), 2020, Workers’ trousers, silk and three legged, photocopies, medium, stone, view across at the the National Savings Bank: the Spuerkees castle

Sophie Jung, Nahcis, 2020, 1980 “design classic”, nacre fish coming up for air

Sophie Jung, Nahcis (detail), 2020, 1980 “design classic”, nacre fish coming up for air

Sophie Jung, The Sleepers, 2020, Family mattresses, newspaper rippings by Germaine Hoffmann with The Imposter, 2020, Dairy produce trolley, black fishnet leotards