Anders Ruhwald The View from the Sides of my Nose The new exhibition by US based Danish artist, Anders Ruhwald titled, “The View from the Sides of my Nose” at Galerie NeC is the first solo presentation of his work in Hong Kong and in Asia. As the title suggests, the exhibition is about seeing and the duality of sight and experience. The show marks a departure in Ruhwald’s career as this exhibition is primarily autobiographical in nature. The work in the show has its origin in every day occurrences in Ruhwald’s life and consists of 9 pairs of objects. Either part of the pairs is a slight variation of the other in material, form or colour. As an example the piece “A Tree that Fell in my Back Yard Rendered in the Form of an Abstracted Body Version A and B” are two objects - one that is made out of wood from a tree that fell close to Ruhwalds home and one where a similar form is rendered in ceramics. In the piece an everyday occurrence not only becomes the subject of the work, but the material of one of the objects, as the piece is made out of the exact tree that prompted the idea to make it. Hereby “A tree that fell....” is a casual exploration of everyday phenomena that has a notion of chance imbedded into the structure of the work. Yet, this notion of ambiguity is the point of Ruhwald show. The other object that makes up“ A Tree that Fell in my Back Yard Rendered in the Form of an Abstracted Body Version A and B” is made out of glazed ceramics in a similar form. Hereby, a gap opens between the two objects - they seem the same yet, with differences in form and material. As such, they suggest two points of view on the same subject or slight variations on the same idea.