Exhibition and Book launch:
Elusive Habitat by Mads Andersen
The Elusive Habitat exhibition displayed a series of works in which Mads explored the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, the digital and the physical, and the chaos in between. Through the use of visual imagery linked to science, biology, archeology, history, geology, ecology and technology, the work hints to the changing nature of our environment and our existence. The material is obtained from a variety of both digital and physical sources (e.g. old magazines and journals, picturebooks, textbooks, digital archives, YouTube, Wikipedia, disassembled computers and TVs and other physical objects) in an extensive collection process. By experimenting with the most basic of digital and analogue tools and techniques, the material has been manipulated, fragmented, abstracted and connected to form new images. Central to the exhibition is a series of silkscreen prints on the material Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal, retrieved from the inside of obsolete TV, computer and tablet LCD screens. This material is a hidden but essential part of the components that makes our screens come to life.
In addition to the installation, the exhibition was a book launch of the publication under the same name, in which Mads experiments with the risograph to create collages from the same visual material and research.