Malthe Møhr

Sja Mægre

2025

29.55 minutes

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16.5-8.6.2025

Open Saturdays and Sundays 13:00-15:00

In the multichannel video-piece, Sja Mægre, we are presented with two different landscapes and personas on each of the two screens. 

1. In the video to the left we see fencers competing in an olympic arena, overlooked by the referees. We follow Gerard: a former  legionnaire of the French Foreign Legion while training in a park. During his training Gerard explains about his memories of serving in the legion. 

2. In the video to the right we see heavy machinery leveling the surface of the ground in a snowy landscape. A narrator tells a story of his friend who sends him videos of a sunny garden. We follow the story of a black cat portrayed on a t-shirt. 

Meanwhile, somewhere in space and time, a number of guys independently upload videos of themselves playing the same cover on guitars in solitude. They play Guts’ Theme, originally composed by Japanese musician and composer, Susumu Hirasawa, for the animated series of the manga, Berserk (1997). The many covers have been arranged and edited so that we experience the guys playing in sync. 

In Sja Mægre, Møhr explores bodily control as reactions to memory, trauma and loss, and seeks to balance storytelling within the transitional exchange of sympathy and empathy. 

Bio: 

In his multimedia work, Malthe Møhr immerses himself in the inscrutable world of mass media and pop-cultural image canons. The protagonists in his work often take on a form that explores masculine mythology and identity, inspired by animated films, advertising, and viral social media clips. The artist sees this multitude of references as the media subconscious of a generation that has experienced the generative potential of the internet with its creative possibilities and subjective forms of expression from the very beginning. The disintegration of classical aesthetic image categories is of particular importance in Møhr’s choice of motifs. What seems absurd and naïve is juxtaposed with real conflicts aimed at confronting male mythology and finding out from its core which structures are worth preserving and which need to be relearned and reshaped.

Malthe Møhr lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. He is currently an artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and was at Cité internationale des arts last year. He holds a Master in Fine Art from Malmö Konsthögskola (2022) and a BFA from the Akademie der bildende Künste Wien - Performative Sculpture.