Sharp Projects (DK)

Sharp Projects was founded in 2021 by American independent curator, Ilethia Sharp. Sharp Projects is a contemporary art gallery and curatorial project space with an international focus.

Blegdamsvej 38,
2200 Copenhagen
+45 31 33 71 76

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CHART

For CHART 2023, Sharp Projects will exhibit works by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (US), Addoley Dzegede (GH/US) and Jeannette Ehlers (DK). These internationally-based artists collectively reference parallels about identity and history in this curated presentation. Their artistic practices connect through photography, textiles, sculpture and installation.

Addoley Dzegede, Prince of Darkness, Cast wax (carnauba, paraffin and beeswax) tinted with natural indigo powder, 2022

Lyndon Barrois Jr., Bloom, 2019

Jeannette Ehlers, Whip It Good, Photography, 2016

Jeannette Ehlers (DK)

Jeannette Ehlers (b. 1973, Holstebro; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen (DK). She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (DK) in 2006, and has since then continued to consistently exhibit internationally. Ehlers was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station, London (UK) in 2022. She is also the co-creator of the public sculpture project ‘I Am Queen Mary,’ Copenhagen (DK) in 2018. Jeannette Ehlers has recently exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK); EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo (FI); MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (US).

Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Ehlers’ work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions, and she insists on the possibility of empowerment and healing in her art, honouring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora in the process.

Whip It Good

Photography
2016

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Kim Coleman

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In The Time Of Ungoing War Can We Flee Into Eachother

Two photostats from the same series and a whip made of rope, banana leaves, indigo fabric and synthetic hair hanging from the wall
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

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The Gaze

Live performance and video
2017-ongoing

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

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CAST ON WATER: Eulogies to Sisterhood Across the African Diaspora”

Performance
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

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Lyndon Barrois Jr. (US)

Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s multimedia practice breaks down and re-configures the language of print, design, and popular culture in order to investigate underlying ideology, ethics, and conceptions of value.

Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. 1983, New Orleans; US) is an artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Barrois received his MFA from Washington University, St. Louis (US), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (US). He is half of LAB:D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged two exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Carnegie Museum of Art (US), Artists Space, New York (US); Rubber Factory, New York (US). Recent solo exhibitions include Carnegie Museum of Art (US), Artists Space, New York (US); Rubber Factory, New York (US).

Bloom

Jacquard woven cotton, 127 x 152.4 cm
2019

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

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Hand Over Fist

Solvent transfers and liquid rubber on primed canvas mounted to panel, and linoleum frame
2023

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'Guardians Gate', installation view at Farfanicchio, 2022, and Masters of Fine Arts, 2011/2022

Wood, latex paint, antique brass elements, cast iron, oil paint, twigs, brass, burlap, packing felt; oil on canvas, artist frame, solvent transfer, plywood, curtains, frames, lights, easels, conservators coat, headlamp; dimensions variable

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

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Addoley Dzegede (GH/US)

Addoley Dzegede’s primary point of departure here is the history of indigo as well as the shifting popularity of the color blue in the West throughout history. She reimagines forms and imagery found while researching the history of the dye’s processing and distribution. Working from diagrammatic illustrations and borrowing from the aesthetics of market vendors and textile artisans, Dzegede renders fossilized records of the pigment’s cultivation.

Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist who grew up in South Florida. She currently lives in Rotterdam, NL where she is a Fulbright awardee in Craft to the Netherlands. She is half of the collaborative duo, LAB:D, with Lyndon Barrois Jr.