Jenna Sutela: I Magma (2019). Image courtesy Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Prallan Allsten
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Artist Jenna Sutela in conversaton with Stefanie Hessler, former Director Kunsthall Trondheim
March 4, 2020, Kunsthall Trondheim opened the exhibition NO NO NSE NSE – Jenna Sutela’s first major solo show at an international institution.
Through Sutela’s latest series of works, including newly commissioned photograms developed specifically for this occasion, the exhibition explores artificial intelligence and in particular the relation between randomness and control in organic and inorganic systems. Science fiction is a recurring theme in Sutela’s work. So is the quest to go beyond the limits of human-created language, both by delving into artificial intelligence and machine learning, and by turning towards technologies as shamanistic devices or possible mediums to channel alien semantics.
In Sutela’s work, technologies transcend physical and immaterial boundaries. The exhibition NO NO NSE NSE invites viewers to approach machines not as models or expansions of the human mind, but on their very own terms.
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A publication with new texts by Lars Bang Larsen, Stefanie Hessler, Lars TCF Holdhus, Caroline A. Jones, Allison Parrish, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers was co-published by Kunsthall Trondheim, the Serpentine Galleries, and Koenig Books.