- Børre Sæthre
Børre Sæthre (b. 1967 in
Oslo ,Norway ) is a Norwegian artist whose exhibitions combine many skills, including those of thearchitect , theinterior design er and theset dresser .cite web|url=http://www.quarantine.nl/series/content/index.php?section=press_releases&id=172|title=Press release: Børre Sæthre|work=Quarantine Series|year=2003|accessdate=2007-11-22] His installations comprise interconnected environments that take the visitor into a fantastic, dreamlike universe which is both aesthetically pleasing and psychologically disquieting.In 1996, he launched LUSTLUX, under which his spatial environments (incorporating walls, furniture, light, sound, and different props) are produced. The structures are spectacular and are created with painstaking precision; the rooms, corridors, pits and dark corners take you into another world, an enigmatic labyrinth populated by unlikely juxtapositions of stuffed animals, furniture and environmental sculptures, with carefully controlled lighting, recorded sound and music, video, living plants, motorized walls and sliding doors.
In the past, Sæthre has spoken of his fascination with Freud's concept of "the uncanny". So instead of trying to shock his media-saturated audience, he draws visitors into active participation in his synthetic dreamlike worlds and gives them a true taste of the uncanny.cite journal|year=2007|month=Nov|title=Art Review - "This is what boys in their stained boxers run from"|author=Ken Pratt|journal= [http://www.woundmagazine.com Wound Magazine] |volume=1|issue=1|pages=208–210|publisher=Francis Malone|location=London|issn=1755-800X]
Sæthre lives and works in
New York ,Berlin andOslo . He is represented by Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FranceAcademic
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