Kåre Frang works mainly with video, sculpture and pictorial objects, sometimes combined in a staged environment. Frang's work revolves around change and the fragility of everyday life. Fragility is understood as the state in which the things, feelings, systems and people that make up most of people's lives are always at a stage just before, during or after a collapse. Frang captures a key moment, when a recognisable object or situation is distorted by the artist in such a way that a system of values and meanings cracks, and a new reality is perceived in the ruins of the one that existed before.
Past and forthcoming exhibitions include: Le Bicolore (Paris), inter. pblc (Copenhagen), Vejle Kunstmuseum (Vejle), Celcius (Malmö), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Heartland Festival (Egeskov Castle), The Nivaagaard Collection (Nivaa), Wadden Tide (Wadden Sea National Park), Rinde am Rhein (Düsseldorf), Posta Space (Sofia), Ringsted Galleriet (Ringsted), Tivoli Gardens (Copenhagen), M100 Odense (Odense), Inter. pblc (Copenhagen), Ehlers Samlingen (Haderslev), Rola Bola (Rouen), Ruttkowski;68 (Paris), Kunsthal 44Møn (Møn), Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Korsør), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Augustiana (Augustenborg), Loggia (Munich), Kunsthal 6100 (Haderslev), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen) and Ruttkowski;68 (New York). Frang has been awarded the Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize (2021), the Honorary Prize of the 15. Juni Foundation (2021), the Silkeborg Kunstnerlegat Grant (2022) and a Sven Hol's Grant (2024).
©Attention crisis 2024 Kåre Frang
In the Grimm brothers' tale Hansel and Gretel, the two children lost in the forest discover a gingerbread house, and get trapped by all that wonderful sugar. In Kåre Frang's sculptural version, the sweets and icing are still there, but the walls have been replaced by Iphones. We move from one addiction to another, from sugar to screens, from a popular myth to the techno-capitalist Apple. From the over-stimulation that screens impose on our consciousness to the Googling of our minds, our ability to concentrate is severely degraded to the point where our attention is in a state of deep crisis.
This lack of attention disrupts both our human relationships and our interactions with the environments around us and their limited resources. An alarm bell for both the poor health of social ties and ecological disruption, Attention crisis, through its shifting and subversive approach, brings our secular and contemporary blind spots into sharp focus.
