Magnetic Correspondence

 

Press Release:

Magnetic Correspondence is the title of a new show by Lea Porsager. The exhibition consists of texts with images, video installations, and numerous photographs all created in the light of – and with reference to the occult.

Magnetic Correspondence is the dialogue that can occur between a human being and its double, the ‘Other’ or the ‘Doppelganger’ that exists in both the subconscious of man and as an external creature operating strong-willed according to its own actions. Lea Porsager refers to the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner and his controversial thesis on the Doppelgänger of human beings, describing them as a cold creature within.

A creature that is able to influence and haunt a human being by force.

 

The Other – The Doppelgänger

What happens if you accept the idea of having a double (doppelgänger) inside you?

What happens if you start receiving signs from this ‘Other'?

What happens when you follow the signs and discover that what you have been told is real?

What if automatic drawing, writing and speaking is actually the ‘Other' manifesting itself through you?

Questions which Lea Porsager asks and investigates in order to get one step closer to an understanding of the creature that Rudolf Steiner describes in Secret Brotherhood and the Mystery of the Human Double.

(Rudolf Steiner, 7 lectures in St. Gallen, Zürich and Domach, 1917)

 

30 cries to the occult

Lea Porsagers speculations on Rudolf Steiner and his thesis has resulted in a vast compilation of material where 30 cries from the ‘Other’ are transcribed, named and commented on in a correspondence between this ‘Other’ and its victim. This knowledge of the ‘Doppelgänger” was according to Rudolf Steiner, held secret by occult brotherhoods in order to gain power from it. With the correspondences to the occult, the exhibition by Lea Porsager opens new interpretations. She invites us to participate in a journey into a secret unknown land where the viewer must take on the role as both guide and interpreter between the victim and the ‘Doppelgänger'.

 

Loss of signal

The exhibition consists of 30 texts and images of the correspondences and video installations, plus 18 photographs. Magnetic Correspondence documents the journey of a victim and her double, which ends in a giant golf ball on the satellite station SvalSat in Svalbard, Norway. With the exhibition, a document arises. A document that can be seen as punctual impacts in a fictive room interfering with reality – the rest is loss of signal.

MAGNETIC CORRESPONDENCE