Condo at Union Pacific, London

Picture a vacuum
An endless and unmoving blackness
Peace, or the absence at least, of terror
I see, and amongst all this space
That speck of light in the furthest corner
Gold as a pharaoh’s coffin
Now follow that light with your tired eyes
It’s been a long day, I know, but look
Watch as it flickers and it roars into fullness and fills the whole frame blazing a fire you can’t bear the majesty of
Here is our Sun
And look
See how the planets are dangled around it
And held in that intricate dance
There is our Earth
Our Earth

Kae Tempest, Picture a Vacuum, 2016

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For Condo London 2024, Union Pacific hosts Sans titre (Paris), and Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), presenting works by Martin Aagaard Hansen, Tanja Nis-Hansen and Kazuyuki Takezaki. Each of these artists work singularly with setting, whether environmental, sociological, or atmospheric. Together their work is an experiential investigation of what it means to communicate our presence on Earth.

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Tanja Nis-Hansen (born in 1988, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. Her subject is the body’s presence amid contemporary capitalism - anxious, waiting, resting, ill or non-functioning. She invites the viewer to think about female labour, exhaustion, illness, bodily maintenance, heritage, and the environment. The artist evinces a fascination for theatre and stage design, which in her paintings surfaces not only through the inner logic of space on the canvas, but also through an all over “theatrical” mode of representation.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Freaky Weather, Gallerie Solito, Naples (2023), Impatient Girl, palace enterprise, Copenhagen (2023), Employee of the Month, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk (2022) and The Great Spaghettification, Sans titre, Paris (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: Dort, wo das Nichts ist (with Yen Chun Lin), Galerie im Turm, Berlin (2023), Nos corps anarchiques, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier (2023), draw a door in the wall and slip through it, Belenius, Stockholm (2023) and Kassandras søstre, Rudetårn, Copenhagen (2022).