ALICE OUTZEN | A never ending story | WAITING ROOM

March 2 - April 11, 2025

VIEW EXHIBITION

“What I strive for as a painter, is to be so exact and present in my expression, that a potential space for reflections arises, between the active viewer and the work.

For me, this process requires contemplation, active surrender and is a kind of sensory thinking, that testifies the agreement of hand and mind, desire and will, body and intellect. All the while, though, the eyes do the approving.

I believe there is a close and deeply interesting connection between formal visual language and content, hence, painting, doing art, is a demanding labor of perception.”

“I am preoccupied by existential considerations and work with issues of relativity, transformation, reflection, paradoxes/opposites, simultaneity, and ambiguity. Naturally, this takes place in a synthesis with the Now, we all spare, and are shaped by, each with our own baggage of gender, culture and history.”

“From my point of view, there appears to be equality, coherence and reciprocity between subjectivity and objectivity, and between mind and matter. This is an ethical and moral matter between a person and the world, a phenomenological concern that has been treated by K. E. Løgstrup, M.Merleau-Ponty, W. Ørskov and others. It’s an intersection of compelling reflections that I find highly engaging.”

Alice Outzen is a Danish painter living in Copenhagen, educated in 1994 from The Royal Danish Akademi, Aarhus.