The visual logic of dreams

In Helene Vestergaard's SET posters, which are on display in the Visual Artists Association's secretariat until 5 March 2019, the viewer is invited to search for hidden connections in symbols, colors and patterns.

With playful visual variations, inspired by the card game SET's tight, mathematical format, Helene Vestergaard's works light up the BKF's meeting room in the first months of the year.

Helene Vestergaard (b. 1991) lives in Aarhus, but also works in Copenhagen, i.a. as a member of the Sydhavn Station Exhibition Center and the workshop community Skelbækgade 32.

She graduated from the Funen Art Academy (2012-2018) and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2017) and mainly works with painting and collage.

In Helene Vestergaard's works, parallels can be seen back to the Dada movement from around 1915 and to the later surrealism. Like the Dadaists, she moves around in her subconscious, dreams and creates connections that are not logical in the waking and rational state.

In her SET posters – inspired by the card game SET, where the participants find mathematical patterns – the same dreamy, irrational connections are seen. The works teem with hidden patterns and visual connections, which can be decoded by the attentive viewer with an eye for the logic of dreams.

Helene Vestergaard:
SET of posters. 80 x 120 cm.

Exhibition in the secretariat of the Association of Visual Artists
21 January-5 March 2019.

Danish Visual Artists
Vingårdstræde 21
1070 Copenhagen K

www.helenevestergaard.com
www.instagram.com/helene_vestergaard_

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