A solo dancer on a platform: high-tension, mechanical movements, an almost dead facial expression. Thiberg portrays our contemporary bodies as ever-more robotic and cyborg-like—blurring reality and virtual, displaying how our bodies operate partially in the digital world, dependent on tech or body-borne computers. He points at a social distance or melancholy, whether nightly doom scrolling or the lonely gamer who is Shutting Out the Sun, as the title says.

Unfolding over time, the exhibition consists of three live choreographies, each on show for two weeks. While the first performance centers on Thiberg himself (August 30–September 12) and the second on two professional dancers moving in space (September 13–26), the final chapter stages a teenager singing (September 27– October 13). Created especially for this exhibition, each choreography is synched to the same “theme song”, a short recurring digital melody, filling the spaces void of almost anything but the performers’ bodies.

While the artist’s own performance thrives on “locking”—a type of show dance he practiced since childhood—interspersed with monotonous recited story lines, all three acts work with minimalist and machinic gestures, rather than emotionally laden personalized performances. In all three choreographies the performers’ bodies are cued by the repeating audio track, making it debatable whether the performer controls their bodily rhythm or if the digital tune, in fact, steers the performing bodies as its automated avatars.

Dancers: Ottavia Catenacci, Casper Albrektsen
Teenager: Werner Drewes, Sol Lyndgaard, or Ella Madelin Prichard

Opening hours: 5-5.30pm, Tuesday—Sunday (doors open ten minutes before)