At UKS, with the passionate precision of an archivo-philliac, White draws us into an intricate web of his research into Sem-Jacobsen with Big Science: Volume 1, which collects issues #01 – #04 of the serialised artist book Big Science. Prints from hand-drawn 1:1 recreations of archival material are accompanied by notes and annotations, stickers, trading cards and posters. Big Science: Volume 1 is a sprawling, underground, dispersed and illicit print project that reveals the chaotic, interdependent and haphazard structures of power, psychiatry, propaganda, influence and ideology.
Martin White (b. 1978, AU) lives and works in Oslo. He is a graduate from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, RMIT University in Melbourne, and Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne. Recent exhibitions include Is this OK? at Oslo Kunstforening (2019) and Dust Biter at Tokonoma at Melk, Oslo (2018). White’s work has been included in Høstutstillingen at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2021) and Making Sense Together at Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo (2017). Prior to his life as a visual artist, White directed performance, film, and television. He also writes essays and reviews alongside researching and teaching.
