I navigate in collisions
Woodcut on paper, 2014–2015
“I navigate in collisions” is a series of large woodcut prints taking a starting point in the family tree. Seeking depictions of a chaotic sense of belonging and skew patterns of love relations, the series reflects navigation out of straight place and history. The signs or abstract letters in the prints consist of anus stars and clit-dicks, as a bodily and poetic language. Each print is an attempt to depict family trees that do not predefine identification or relations and thus the series reflects a continuous dreaming and searching for images of the undefined, fluid and queer. As organic and natural material, wood creates a physical dimension of Fleckner’s exploration into collisions between the body and various cultural norms and ideas. The series “I navigate in collisionsis” related Fleckner’s on-going investigation of experiences of displacement, the unfinished and failure in relation to queer navigation and the fluidity of the body.
Artist's Bio:
Ester Fleckner (1983) lives and works in Copenhagen. She has graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Goldsmiths University of London. Artist explores intersections between identity, language, physicality and navigation across time and space. Often the outcome appears from collisions between different elements in which mistakes and repetitions are central part of the work. The practice has materialized in woodcut prints, collages, installations and performative reading formats. Especially the woodcut print has been a recurring media. The technique is simple and immediate as well as the printing process allows for differences, errors and a loss of control.