Stacey de Voe – THE SPONTANEOUS DANCE FALLS
Vernissage 25 September, 17.00–20.00
Exhibition 26 September—1 November
Open during Malmö Gallery Weekend:
Friday 26.09 18:00-23:00
Sat-Sunday 27-28.09 13:00-17:00
THE SPONTANEOUS DANCE FALLS is an ongoing artistic research project, which scrutinizes the politics surrounding gestures of collective gathering through the myth of Frau Troffea, the dancing plague of 1518, and the recently abandoned 'danstillståndet' or 'dancing permit' (1956–2023). Through the allusion of a dancing woman who may never have existed, the body of work explores various moments of collectivity, myth, mutation, rhythm, hysteria, restriction and exhaustion. With historical fragments spanning from the medieval period to today, de Voe attempts to understand the relation of dance (movement) and the dance floor as historical expressions of socialist world building and potential arenas of future utopias.
Spanning across sound, image, installation and performance, Stacey de Voe assesses how our relations to one another have been limited by privatisation and exclusion, where the spontaneity of the ‘public realm’ has depended on our capacity to absorb the effects of labour and restriction on our bodies without ever seeming to tire. The exhibition at skēnē builds on previous paragraphs previously shown at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Stockholm and Simian, Copenhagen.
Stacey de Voe, b. 1988, New York, is a visual artist based in Malmö, Sweden. Through a research oriented approach her practice uses site specificity and the archive to investigate broader issues of historicity, class politics, collective memory, feminized labor and friendship. She employs mediums such as installation, video montage, performance and publication; stitching together archival material, personal accounts and fiction to create new narratives. She uses the archive to restage and modulate historiography through a relational process, developing a certain intimacy to the people and places she inquires.
She has presented work at SIMIAN, LCCA/Latvian National Museum of Art, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst, Skånes Konstförening, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, osloBIENNALEN, Celsius Projects, Oslo Kunstforening, Malmö Konstmuseum, BAK basis voor actuele kunst and Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. She received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2023.
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