X-Ray Targets (094)

Andersen’s is pleased to present Martin Brandt Hansen’s first solo exhibition in the gallery.
Martin Brandt Hansen works primarily in sculpture and installation, with a significant style that stems from his Greenlandic origin. His exhibition X-RAY TARGETS shows a series of works, exploring mythology from Inuit culture, as can be seen in his interpretation of the classic tupilaq figure, where he challenges and explores the traditional scales and materials.
The objects in Brandt Hansen’s works range from his sculptural interpretations of traditional Inuit artifacts to a representation of imported manufactured objects from Greenland - showing the classic iconography of western mass culture and its influence. The Objects that are all reflecting a larger historical, social, and cultural meaning, come together, and create a strong visual narrative. 
Historically Greenlandic art history has been told, written, and displayed from the ‘outside’. The artistic creations of Greenlandic people have always been categorized as primitive and non-western. In Brandt Hansen’s works, he explores and challenges the ‘traditional’ way of exhibiting and displaying Greenlandic art and culture - focusing on changing the perspective and articulating new narratives.  
The Exhibition X-RAY TARGETS focuses on cultural meetings. What we share, and exchange, and how we tell stories and provide new narratives. Brandt Hansen establishes a personal and referential framework for the viewer, to use as an ‘x-ray lens’, through which we can perceive and interpret our own subjective experience of his works.