Group show at Peter Lav Gallery, co-curated with Jakob Hunosøe. The folk tale of cooking soup on a nail, or stone or button, according to where you're coming from, gave us the title to the show, where photography and sculpture, based on everyday objects, was activated as symbols, materials or participants in natural phenomenons.

My contribution to the group show was called Blue Hotel and it had five individual, but connected, works in it. A show in the show. Or, since it was my first show in a gallery, a booth at a fair.


Mistral
2009
Font wall text, Greek blue paint






Isola
2009
Plastic chair, plastic door handle





Eau
2008
Photograph





Breeze Waves
2009
Breeze table fan, Waves textile curtain





A Taste of Paradise
2009
1:1 offset printed pamphlets








Blue Hotel installation view




My contribution to the show is inspired by the philosopher David Hume's thoughts about knowledge arising out of pure conceptual thought (Relation of Ideas) or experience with the external world (Matters of Fact). These labels have a bridge between them, or should I say: gap in them. At one point Hume asserts, that if a seeing man, and had been one for many years, had seen all colours, but one shade of blue, would he be able to generate this shade of colour in his mind, by seeing the adjecent shades? By stating this, Hume directly contradicts what he said just two paragraphs earlier, namely that every idea we examine is copied from a similar impression. It's still a problem why he wrote that, contradicting himself, 270 years after it has been written.
I have tried to find that missing shade of blue, looking for an answer in the cradle of philosophy, but as you see in the work Mistral, the ancient Greeks didn't have a clue. I copied the colour of a postcard from Greece and the stage was set for the Blue Hotel.