GRO SARAUW

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Micro Institute - AHC - Art Hub Copenhagen 2023 - ongoing

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Dear Aliens, We Are Ready 9.5. — 3.7. 2021 at PASTOR PROJECTS, MX

Artist in Residency, Art Hub Copenhagen, August -December 2021

TRANSCALAR 20.02. — 23.03.2019. Solo exhibition opening in two acts at the contemporary art platform Surdez Aps in Copenhagen.

NON PERFECT DWELLING 29.6.—15.9.2019

/ The Social Territories of a Warming World

The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Exhibition photos.

#SYNCHRONICITY 12.8.— 22.9. 2019

/ The Social Territories of a Warming World

Airport Gallery, 18th St. Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. Press

Works appearing here

#1. Chosen Familily, No Chosen Family, No Family (A Study for Participatory Excitement) (1999-) 2021

#2. Blue Euphoria, 2019 (diptych) by Gro Sarauw Digital UV print on Silk Georgette, LEDs, Arduino Uno, wooden frame, electrical wiring. Each panel: 80 x 111,5 cm Photo: Kevin Malcolm. Courtesy of the artist and Surdez Aps, DK

#3. SIDE B (Climate Crisis Book Shop), 2019. Responding to the retail end of the knowledge economy in the city of Los Angeles, this bookstore inaugurates a non-ideal concept for a new bookstore in the urban fabric that is designed around crisis. Suggesting an architecture for the knowledge deficits we have in our cities, the selection of books offered in this store is part of the most recent research on climate change, dating back to 2003. Where Side A (see 5.) is a collection of dead things, Side B is a collection on books concerning life within the climate crisis. Together, the two set up a timeline in the exhibition that addresses the relationship between planning and action. The books included a number of donated titles from various (academic or independent) publishers. All books except donations were for sale during the exhibition. Most books are provided by Vroman’s Bookstore, PA.

#4. Flags, 2019 (collaboration SUNRISE & EXTINCTION REBELLION MOVEMENTS, and Metabolic Studio, LA). We invited members from the Sunrise Movement (USA) and Extinction Rebellion (UK), two climate change advocacy groups, to participate in a workshop to print flags and to engage in a dialogue around converging global climate change goals. Our group initiated and moderated this as a collaborative silk-screen workshop. Members of both movements met and collaborated to print each other’s symbols at Metabolic Studio’s silk-screen workshop in Los Angeles. 28 flags. Silk-screen on rice paper. Installation dimensions variable. Installed at the Armory Center for the Arts, Caldwell Gallery, June 16 - September 15, 2019. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts and the artists of The Winter Office.

#5. love your symptom, 2020. Gro Sarauw. Still. Text for led sign. Installed at El Nopal Press as part of DRIVE BY ART. EAST LA, MAY 23-25 2020. Video available by request.

#6. @El Nopal Press, Los Angeles, CA. Gro Sarauw Lithographic printed edition (in progress). Released 2020.

#7. The Small Bang - Sådan Sang De til Mig i Dødens Dal, 2019. by Gro Sarauw.Digital UV print on silk (habutai), LEDs, Arduino Uno, wooden frame, electrical wiring. 115 x 148 cm. Photo: Kevin Malcolm. Courtesy of the artist and Surdez Aps, DK

#8. Re-wildering holographic weeds, 2019. Lithographic print, 25 9/16 x 18 1/4 inches. Re-wildering holographic weeds. This lithographic print engages a near-future reality, where memories of nature are made by mass-produced holograms driven by our technological relationship to the loss of ‘organic nature.’ More precisely, and without science fiction, how will we use technology in the future to respond to the mass extinction of flora and fauna? We are told not to use climate models as crystal balls to get a glimpse of our future, because they are based on an old dream of humanity, and that natural scientists can’t predict the future of climate, because it depends on human action. However, this simulated and non-ideal hologram of the lithograph knows no borders. It can rewilder the Sahara, the landscape architecture of theme parks, or areas where the decimation of our soils and subsoils prevents the growth of these weeds — we have technology as an option to console our memory of nature in ‘light’ of its loss. By The Winter Office. Printed by Francesco Siqueiros at El Nopal Press. Part of Non-Perfect Dwelling, 2019, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts and the artists.

#9. G.R.A.C.E. , 2019. Single-channel video, color, sound; 8:16 min. G.R.A.C.E. satellites mapped the gravitational fields of earth and generated source images that have provided scientists with data about Earth’s magnetic fields and ecosphere. In this video work a fictional ‘algorithm,’ now sentient, ponders the visualization of Earth from the data and questions us as inhabitants of the planet, wondering how our existence works rather than what it means. Lysa Flores provides the voice of the algorithm. Installed at the Armory Center for the Arts, Caldwell Gallery, June 16 - September 15, 2019. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts and the artists. By The Winter Office.

10# The Coming North, 2019. Wood, paint, silk. 69 x 83 x 20 inches. This wooden sculpture shows the Earth’s present and future celestial north stars – at once diagram and a fictional astrological instrument — referencing overlapping celestial theories (conspiracies) regarding the Earth’s precession after human intervention. A new north star will be visible in the future, due to an affected planetary precession that will have been impacted by human activity on the surface of the planet. This new north star could be seen as a new anthropocenic celestial north. Installed at the Armory Center for the Arts, Caldwell Gallery, June 16 - September 15, 2019. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts and the artists. By The Winter Office.

#11. Table First Version, 2019. This table and sound recording equipment function as a public speaking and listening environment where urgent paradigms for dwelling and housing can be imagined in conversation. A series of public conversations on non-ideal theories of art, collaborative design, and spatial justice in the 21st century city, collectively entitled The Social Territories of a Warming World, are being produced and launched as a podcast series and made available online. The program was organised in collaboration with The Armory Center for the Arts and 18th Street Arts Center and was moderated by me and other members of the group, where a second twin sattelite version of this table was installed, Aug-Sep, 2019. Wood, metal, recording. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts and the artists. By The Winter Office.