• CV

Svend-Allan Sørensen works in several genres such as sculpture / object, installation and video but his graphic works such as linocuts, woodcuts, etchings and lithography, most often in very small editions are his main practice. Svend-Allan Sørensen's works are often associated with humor, playfulness and curiosity. Both in installations with stuffed prey in strange poses and in the whimsical bird phrases filled with double meanings and references. Thematically, Svend-Allan Sørensen works persistently with the relationship between nature and culture. A work that has both a general historical and human perspective, and which is at the same time a personal matter. Nature as the basic condition we all have in common, but also as the personal relationship Svend-Allan Sørensen seeks to define in his own role as a hunter. It is this ongoing uncovering of the constellation nature-culture that translates into text based works, where the bird often plays the main role as a metaphor, expressing political, humorous or personal considerations and questions and thus is about anything but birds. The texts derive from song lyrics, from the internet, from literature, slang and proverbs. They revolve around the absurd, paradoxical and ironic and they collectively uncover a complex notion of cultural man's relationship to nature.
The same mix of nature and culture is found in Svend-Allan Sørensen's series "Absurd Birds", where very old bird illustrations are "hacked", by running them through a modern scanner numerous times and finally lasercut the distorted motifs in plywood before printing in the old fashioned way as a normal woodcut. It is this way,  Svend-Allan Sørensen steps in and make contemporay culture clash with old school birdwatching.

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