{"id":6876,"date":"2016-04-12T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/en\/?post_type=utstillinger&p=6876"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:10:30","slug":"emperor-and-galilean","status":"publish","type":"bc_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/emperor-and-galilean\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor and Galilean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The subject matters of Ibsen\u2019s play manifest themselves in Tobreluts\u2019 classical and Christian motifs, in their anachronistic temporality and in their experimental form. Her anachronism conflates past, present and future, her many constellations of complementary pairs and triptychs parallel the dualities and the third empire of Ibsen\u2019s drama, and her digital manipulation comments upon and challenges the traditional artistic media of painting and photo in the way Ibsen\u2019s play offers imaginative representations of his sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibsen presents a historical drama that attends to the inner life and the spirit of the time in both the 4th<\/sup> century Roman Empire and the 19th<\/sup> century Europe. Tobreluts visual art meditates upon Ibsen\u2019s play and our own time: Ideological clashes belong to today\u2019s society, secularisation and religion are still at odds, the autonomy of arts are under constant pressure. Tobreluts\u2019 anachronistic features reveal the temporal complexity of history, modernity and future, just as the surrealist tendency suggests strife for reconciliation of inner life and social order when life appears absurd. Her highly manipulated visions of historical settings and works of art hint of renewal, falsification and denial of history. Rontgen-like images indicate new types of technology for research into history, but also today\u2019s surgical state supervision of the individual. Like Ibsen\u2019s and Tobreluts\u2019 time, our time is also a time of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tobreluts\u2019 fascinating images in Emperor and Galilean<\/em> revive and illuminate Ibsen\u2019s great play and reflect upon the world drama of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruben Moi, University of Troms\u00f8<\/p>\n\n\n