Installation view, Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS, 2022, Copenhagen

Martin Brandt Hansen

X-RAY TARGETS

03.10.2022 - 03.11.2022

Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen

The Exhibition X-RAY TARGETS focuses on cultural meetings. What we share, and exchange, and how we tell stories and provide new narratives. Martin Brandt Hansen works primarily in sculpture and installation, with a significant style that stems from his Greenlandic origin - exploring the “traditional” way of exhibiting and displaying Greenlandic art and culture.

His exhibition shows a series of works, exploring mythology from Inuit culture, as can be seen in his interpretation of the classic tupilak figure, where he challenges and explores the traditional scales and materials. The objects in Brandt Hansen’s works range from his sculptural interpretations of traditional Inuit artifacts to a representation of imported manufactured objects from Greenland – showing the classic iconography of western mass culture and its influence. The Objects that are all reflecting a larger historical, social, and cultural meaning, come together, and create a strong visual narrative.

Historically Greenlandic art history has been told, written, and displayed from the “outside”. The artistic creations of Greenlandic people have always been categorized as primitive and non-western. In Brandt Hansen’s works, he explores and challenges the “traditional” way of exhibiting and displaying Greenlandic art and culture- focusing on changing the perspective and articulating new narratives.

Installation view, Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS, 2022, Copenhagen

Martin Brandt Hansen (1990) was born in Nuuk, Greenland, but has lived in Copenhagen for several years. He has a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Brandt Hansen’s practice is primarily focused in the medium of sculpture and installation. He works with both western mass culture and art history, mythology from Inuit culture and anthropological and ethnographic methods.