{"id":11027,"date":"2024-05-08T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:47:19","slug":"this-is-the-end-of-the-world-but-it-always-started-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/this-is-the-end-of-the-world-but-it-always-started-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the end of the world, but it always started with you"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the end of the world, but it always started with you
\n<\/i><\/b>Ajamu X, Cassie Augusta J\u00f8rgensen, VI-X Hatfield, Young-jun Tak<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

May 17\u2013June 16, 2024
\n<\/span>Vernissage: Fri 17 May, 18.00\u201321.00
\n<\/span>Inauguration with the artists and curator: 19.00<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the end of the world, but it always started with you<\/span><\/i> is a lyrical manifestation of time. Time, as never-ending, as always in flux.<\/span> As repetition, as having the past fully there in the present with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is textured with skin, iridescent lighting, monocles \u2013 all alluding to queer desire, longing, yearning, untethering moments and figures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The title,<\/span> \u201cThis is the end of the world, but it always started with you\u201d<\/span><\/i> is picked lovingly, like a delicate flower, from the final chapter of Cassie Augusta J\u00f8rgensen’s epistolary film work, <\/span>The Danish Girl Dick<\/span><\/i> (2022). It is the perfect punctuation to a film that inherently refuses an ending and opens itself up to an endless loop.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

British photographer Ajamu X unveils a compelling array of photographs and archival material, spanning his prolific practice since the 1980s. Here, the photograph is presented as tangible erotic<\/span> matter, perfected in the darkroom and imbued with literal and metaphorical processes. Through each click and whirl, time collapses, unraveling intimate presence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Parisian lesbian bar, Le Monocle, established in the early twentieth century by Lulu de Montparnasse is revisited by VI-X Hatfield through a series of gouache paintings, an abstract mural, and a site specific installation. Through repetition and emphasis, history is imprinted on the walls of the gallery, not merely as a reference but as alive and open to abstraction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Young-jun Tak\u2019s video <\/span>Wish You a Lovely Sunday<\/span><\/i> (2021) boldly juxtaposes scenes from a church (Kirche am S\u00fcdstern) and a queer club (SchwuZ) in Berlin. Here, bodies are immersed in the melodies of Bach’s symphonies, bending, and twisting in rhythmic (dis)harmony, mirroring ways in which queerness bends itself in everyday architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the end of the world, but it always started with you<\/span><\/i> unfurls time and embraces infinity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator: Tawanda Appiah<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: Ajamu X, Self-Portrait on Chez Lounge<\/em>, 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the end of the world, but it always started with you Ajamu X, Cassie Augusta J\u00f8rgensen, VI-X Hatfield, Young-jun Tak May 17\u2013June 16, 2024 Vernissage: Fri 17 May, 18.00\u201321.00 Inauguration with the artists and curator: 19.00 This is the end of the world, but it always started with you is a lyrical manifestation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utstallning"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["sv","en"],"languages":{"sv":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}