Joker/trickster
2025
2025
Danske Grafikeres Hus, March 7–30, 2025
As jokers in our own narrative, we navigate through spaces and time. We emerge, disappear, return. The events of our lives are onsets in sequences with unknown intervals — moving from a to b to c, or back again. Connections and transitions intersect linear progressions and forward motion.
The game allows for testing strategies and plots by combining different actions that adhere to its rules. The path we choose is simultaneously marked by the many we did not take. We leave a trail behind us of possible other routes, sediments of temporal and spatial sequences accumulating in all directions. The whole note marks a pause on the game board.
The actual meets the virtual in the hesitation we sense in the gap between 1 and 0.
What defines the relationship between this step and the next? When does a point become a line? Through the abstraction of systems for notation and representation, a translation occurs, from signals to symbols. We can close our eyes and hear the shape, feel it.
The stone in your hand.
The whole note, stretched across the entire interval, marks a presence and fullness—chopped up, divided, and reassembled anew. Life fills the space between birth and death. The heath as a pause in the landscape. The pause as a landscape in music.
In Aske Zidore’s practice, composition, game design, and image-making intersect in subgenres that blend the interactive with the performative and the visual. The exhibition Joker/trickster presents a series of new prints and casts, including a modular game board, a quarter rest, and the whole note as a graphic representation—broken apart and reassembled in new sequences in reliefs and prints. The title Joker/trickster refers to the exhibition’s central figure and host, the whole note. The joker/trickster appears in the sheet music, the game board, cast into reliefs, massaged into woodcuts and risograph prints, rolled through limestone and flint, and into the sequenced landscapes as an image of imagination, play, and lightness navigating heavy, rigid systems.
The joker’s traversal through the visual and sculptural elements of the exhibition points to sequences that cut across the presented objects, hinting at the possibility of a prescribed action or a corresponding sound embedded within them.
Text by Anne Kølbæk Iversen
Photos by Brian Kure
The exhibition was supported by Statens Kunstfond
As jokers in our own narrative, we navigate through spaces and time. We emerge, disappear, return. The events of our lives are onsets in sequences with unknown intervals — moving from a to b to c, or back again. Connections and transitions intersect linear progressions and forward motion.
The game allows for testing strategies and plots by combining different actions that adhere to its rules. The path we choose is simultaneously marked by the many we did not take. We leave a trail behind us of possible other routes, sediments of temporal and spatial sequences accumulating in all directions. The whole note marks a pause on the game board.
The actual meets the virtual in the hesitation we sense in the gap between 1 and 0.
What defines the relationship between this step and the next? When does a point become a line? Through the abstraction of systems for notation and representation, a translation occurs, from signals to symbols. We can close our eyes and hear the shape, feel it.
The stone in your hand.
The whole note, stretched across the entire interval, marks a presence and fullness—chopped up, divided, and reassembled anew. Life fills the space between birth and death. The heath as a pause in the landscape. The pause as a landscape in music.
In Aske Zidore’s practice, composition, game design, and image-making intersect in subgenres that blend the interactive with the performative and the visual. The exhibition Joker/trickster presents a series of new prints and casts, including a modular game board, a quarter rest, and the whole note as a graphic representation—broken apart and reassembled in new sequences in reliefs and prints. The title Joker/trickster refers to the exhibition’s central figure and host, the whole note. The joker/trickster appears in the sheet music, the game board, cast into reliefs, massaged into woodcuts and risograph prints, rolled through limestone and flint, and into the sequenced landscapes as an image of imagination, play, and lightness navigating heavy, rigid systems.
The joker’s traversal through the visual and sculptural elements of the exhibition points to sequences that cut across the presented objects, hinting at the possibility of a prescribed action or a corresponding sound embedded within them.
Text by Anne Kølbæk Iversen
Photos by Brian Kure
The exhibition was supported by Statens Kunstfond
