Other People’s Projects: Primary Information / ALBUM

June 11–July 26, 2014
Two images are set in front of a white background within the confines of a shared white frame. Dark smoke emanates from a rocky terrain on the left, and, in a slightly larger image, three dogs with curly fur on the right are apparently gazing towards the smoke.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen
Furry, N.D.
Unique collage
14 × 18 1/2 in.

Two similar Philips advertisements are set next to one other, sharing one frame. Each depicts an image of the same singular breast below blocks of text with the heading, “Negative - that beautiful word.”

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen
Boobs, N.D.
Unique collage
14 × 17 in.

A vitrine shown from above at an angle holds magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014

Two images sharing one frame hang on a white wall. Below, a vitrine displays magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014

Two images share a horizontal white frame. Left is an image of two children carrying a glass pane above their heads, and right is an image of another glass pane acting as a dining table while resting on the geological protrusions of a river bank.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveena
Eating Out, N.D.
Unique collage
22 1/2 × 14 in.

Two framed sets of images on a gallery wall. Left, an image of two elephants, perhaps fighting or embracing, is shown above a Firestone advertisement. Right, a Valentino advertisement is placed next to an image showing the lower half of a nude body positioned on a bed, displaying male genitalia.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014

Press Release

White Columns is proud to present an exhibition by the Norwegian artists Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen makers of ALBUM, an ongoing magazine project that they began in 2008. The exhibition has been organized for White Columns by Primary Information. This September Primary Information will release a publication collecting the first ten issues of ALBUM. Primary Information describe the project thus: “Created entirely from found images ALBUM is comprised of collages taken from a multitude of sources reflecting the popular imagery found in typical Scandinavian households from the 1960s through the 1980s: etiquette manuals, cookbooks, travel magazines, craft books, fashion magazines, and sexual manuals for children and adults. Each thematic issue provides a panoply of readings through the artists’ deft juxtaposition of images in layout and design. While seemingly whimsical, ALBUM provides a sophisticated meta-narrative on the human body, sexuality, and the social lives of images placing the reader in an uncanny arena that showcases how our media likely reads us.” For the White Columns installation, Mugaas and Storsveen will present several new collages including a new large-scale work made for a vitrine.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen’s project has generously been supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York.

This is White Columns second collaboration with James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information, who selected the fourth ‘White Columns Annual’ in 2010.

Two images are set in front of a white background within the confines of a shared white frame. Dark smoke emanates from a rocky terrain on the left, and, in a slightly larger image, three dogs with curly fur on the right are apparently gazing towards the smoke.
Two similar Philips advertisements are set next to one other, sharing one frame. Each depicts an image of the same singular breast below blocks of text with the heading, “Negative - that beautiful word.”
A vitrine shown from above at an angle holds magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.
Two images sharing one frame hang on a white wall. Below, a vitrine displays magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.
Two images share a horizontal white frame. Left is an image of two children carrying a glass pane above their heads, and right is an image of another glass pane acting as a dining table while resting on the geological protrusions of a river bank.
Two framed sets of images on a gallery wall. Left, an image of two elephants, perhaps fighting or embracing, is shown above a Firestone advertisement. Right, a Valentino advertisement is placed next to an image showing the lower half of a nude body positioned on a bed, displaying male genitalia.

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, Furry, N.D., Unique collage, 14 × 18 1/2 in. (Two images are set in front of a white background within the confines of a shared white frame. Dark smoke emanates from a rocky terrain on the left, and, in a slightly larger image, three dogs with curly fur on the right are apparently gazing towards the smoke.)

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, Boobs, N.D., Unique collage, 14 × 17 in. (Two similar Philips advertisements are set next to one other, sharing one frame. Each depicts an image of the same singular breast below blocks of text with the heading, “Negative – that beautiful word.”)

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014 (A vitrine shown from above at an angle holds magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.)

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014 (Two images sharing one frame hang on a white wall. Below, a vitrine displays magazine spreads, advertisements, and other photographs.)

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, Eating Out, N.D., Unique collage, 22 1/2 × 14 in. (Two images share a horizontal white frame. Left is an image of two children carrying a glass pane above their heads, and right is an image of another glass pane acting as a dining table while resting on the geological protrusions of a river bank.)

Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen, installation view, 2014 (Two framed sets of images on a gallery wall. Left, an image of two elephants, perhaps fighting or embracing, is shown above a Firestone advertisement. Right, a Valentino advertisement is placed next to an image showing the lower half of a nude body positioned on a bed, displaying male genitalia.)