Oli Sorenson.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS CHOISIES

ZOMBIE CAPITALISM, Brompton Art Centre, 2023

ANTHROPOCENE / CAPITALOCENE book launch, Art Mur Gallery, 2022

THE CLOUD / LE NUAGE, Baie Saint-Paul Symposium, 2022

METAVERSE / METAMORPHOSIS, Elektra Virtual Museum, Online, 2022-23

TOPIA, Maison de la Culture Verdun, Montreal, 2022-23

CAPITALOCENE?, Art Mur Gallery, Montreal, 2022

DIAMOND EDITION : PANORAMA OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Elektra Gallery, Montreal, 2021

PANORAMA OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Maison de la Culture Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal, 2021

PANORAMA OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Plein Sud Gallery,Longueuil, 2020

LANDSCAPES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, Multiple venues, 2020-21

LED FLAVIN, light installation, Elektra Gallery, Montreal, 2019

POSTERS OF SEVEN, performance, Arsenal Gallery / Art Souterrain, Montreal, 2019

FONTANA MASHUP, Arsenal Gallery / Art Souterrain, Montreal, 2019

RE-POLITISER BORDUAS, Mainline Gallery, Montreal, 2017

VIDEO PISTOLETTO PERFORMANCE, Playground AV Festival, Vienna, 2018

VIDEO PISTOLETTO PERFORMANCE, DokFest in Kassel, 2017


VIDEO PISTOLETTO PERFORMANCE, Division Gallery for Art Souterrain, 2017

VIDEO PISTOLETTO PHOTOGRAPHY, LaCastiglione Gallery, 2017

VIDEO PISTOLETTO PERFORMANCE, FILE Festival, 2015

JAMES BOND MEGAMIX (NO MORE HEROES), Multi-screen remix installation, 2018

BOND POSTERS (NO MORE HEROES), cut and painted prints, 2018

NO MORE HEROES, Film remix series, 2010-17

GOOGLE ART @multiple venues, 2013

ALIASES @Mutek IMG, 2013

MAPPING BUREN @multiple venues, 2010-12

THX1138 REMIX @British Film Institute, 2010

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CURRENT / UPCOMING EVENTS

En d'infines variations [group show]
@Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris (FR)
06 Dec 2023 - 19 Apr 2024

Après Moi Le Déluge [solo show]
@Art Mûr, Montreal (CA)
02 Mar - 20 Apr 2024

OTHER/ PLATFORMS

NFT Sales [Crypto art]
Ongoing

ARTSY Sales [Tangible art, online]
Ongoing

BIOGRAPHY / PRACTICE

Oli Sorenson was born in Los Angeles, educated in Montreal. He established an international profile from London (1999-2010), from where he delivered his first audiovisual performances at the Institute of Contemporary Art (2003-06), Tate Britain (2006), the British Film Institute (2006). 2008-10), as well as at the ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2002), Mapping (Geneva, 2009) and Sonica (Ljubljana, 2012) festivals. Since his return to Montreal in 2010, Sorenson presented his work at Monitoring (Kassel, 2012/17), Power Plant (Toronto, 2014), FILE (Sao Paulo, 2015/23), at the Biennial of Digital Arts (Montreal, 2020), Unfold X (Seoul, 2023) and the Tangible Image Biennale (Paris, 2023).

Oli Sorenson is greatly influenced by DJing, he connects his practice with the art of remixing by using citation, accumulation and situationist détournement as expressive vectors. Among other activities, he combines art history canons with current affairs, popular culture and social network feeds, to produce new narratives and new cultural materials. On the other hand, he also criticizes the industrial overproduction of capitalist societies, where market profits take priority over the well-being of populations and nature, and exert an existential threat on the ecology of our planet.

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RÉSUMÉ BIOGRAPHIQUE / DÉMARCHE

Oli Sorenson est né à Los Angeles, éduqué à Montréal. Il a établi un profil international à partir de Londres (1999-2010), d’où il exécute ses premières performances audiovisuelles à l’Institute of Contemporary Art (2003-06), à Tate Britain (2006), au British Film Institute (2008-10), ainsi qu’aux festivals ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2002), Mapping (Genève, 2009) et Sonica (Ljubljana, 2012). Depuis son retour à Montréal en 2010, Sorenson diffuse son travail à Monitoring (Kassel, 2012/17), Power Plant (Toronto, 2014), FILE (Sao Paulo, 2015/23), à la Biennale d’arts numériques (Montréal, 2020), Unfold X (Seoul, 2023) et la Biennale de l’image tangible (Paris, 2023).

Oli Sorenson est grandement influencé par le DJing, il associe sa pratique à celle d’un art du remix en utilisant la citation, l’accumulation et le détournement comme vecteurs expressifs. Ainsi il déconstruit certains canons de l'histoire de l'art pour les combiner aux faits saillants de l’actualité, de la culture populaire et des réseaux sociaux, pour produire de nouveaux récits et de nouveaux matériaux culturels. Par contre, il critique aussi cette surproduction industrielle des sociétés capitalistes, où le profit marchant prend plus d’importance que le bien-être des populations et de la nature, et de ce fait exerce une menace existentielle sur l’écologie de la Terre.

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