Søren Martinsen
TIPPING POINT.
Soloexhibition at Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark 2024.
A tipping point is a precarious moment, where balancing forces get irrevocably destabilized. Where the consequence will be a fall, acollapse to one side or another.
This is a description that fits the state of the world in many ways at the moment. A world that is already reeling from Covid-19 pandemic, inequality and climate crisis. When an aggressor like Russia chooses to poke the carefully balancing global security by attacking an innocent neighbor without even the faintest shadow af a valid cause, the whole world may fall into chaotic war - unless the aggressor is defeated and balance restored.
Ukraine is the geographical center of balance and struggle between on one side forces of destruction, autocratic suppression and colonial expansion - and on the other side democracy and peace. If Ukraine falls, the balance will tip.
The exhibition attempts to describe impressions of the war as witnessed by me in Ukraine during the war, and expressing the silent scream of scarred landscapes and desolation.
