Gross Motor Skills outlines an ambivalent space of logistics. Referencing logistics and its history as a term for the activity of organizing, equipping, and moving troops, the exhibition offers a terrain through which we can circulate ourselves amidst other sausage-bodies, fragmented architectures, and the sundries of a poorly-equipped mobile military corps. Gross Motor Skills gleefully confronts the increasing use of artificial intelligence to advance logistics across supply chains, data analysis, moving people, and more. Even as our intersubjectivities dissipate into quantifiable data-byte-bites, laboring bodies still need to eat. Yes! All we’ll have left is our bodies.
Gross Motor Skills, 2023
Solo exhibition at 3:e Våningen, commissioned by NSFW/Svilova, Gothenburg International Biennial of Art Extended Programme
Visit NSFW/SVILOVA for further documentation and exhibition text by Axelle Stiefel.
Unless otherwise noted all photos by the artist.
Supported by the Gwaertler Stiftung and Research at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Tourers (Winter Storage), 2023
Polypropylene bag, winter camouflage, animal figurines (polar bear, polar bear, poodle), embroidered patches, Mobile keychain.
65 x 65 x 45 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
SKU, 2023
Stone pine, conveyor belt roller, plastic crate.
40 x 80 x 120 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
CAPTTTTCHA (traffic light), 2023
Wildlife camera, selection of CAPTCHA images, TRAFFIC LIGHT category. Edition of 6 + 2 AP.
8.5 x 11 x 5 cm
Gross Motor Skills AB, 2023
Handwoven textile (1000 cm), steel ratchet, wall panels from gallery storage, aluminum drywall beams.
Dimensions variable
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Forwarder, 2023
Stone pine (carved), powder-coated steel rain pipe, chain, flax butcher twine.
12 x 24 x 389 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Reliance, 2023
Foldable water bottle, godis (fish, Ferraris, bottles, Swedish Fish export).
31 x 33 x 30 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Dead Deferral (VI), 2020/2023
Stone pine (carved), plastic bag, pine timber.
152 x 250 x 10 cm
Flow Pt. 3, 2022/2023
Stone pine (carved), powder coated steel half-round gutter.
7 x 500 x 13 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Platonic Assembly, 2022
Stone pine (carved), PVC-coated wire, found metal structure, found cardboard boxes.
33 x 70.5 x 25 cm
Photo: Daniel Grizelj
Amendment (II and III), 2022/2023
Stone pine (carved), pine timber.
Dimensions variable (this instance: 805 x 250 x 4 cm)