Sabina Askelius

Syncopation is a rhythmic displacement, a shifted emphasis, a deviation in the beat where something falls slightly outside what is expected. Perhaps that is also where the work moves, in a kind of displacement between attention, language, and the conditions under which something might become recognisable.

The work takes its point of departure from a practice of double notation where what is perceived is first articulated through a language already at hand, only to return under more restricted conditions where identification, metaphor, and explanation are temporarily held back. What would otherwise rather quickly stabilise as something is instead allowed to emerge through how it appears, shifts, and lingers.
In that sense, the work is perhaps not so much about representing an object as it is about disrupting immediate recognition, if only slightly. By delaying the impulse to name, categorise, or understand, attention is redirected toward the process through which meaning seems to be taking shape.
The work remains in this interval where what is encountered has not yet settled into certainty, where contours have not quite been fully drawn, and where other relations may still, at least temporarily, become possible.