Based on the ongoing exhibition with CC Hennix, Malmö Konsthall invites you to a workshop with researcher and Lacan scholar Ervik Cejvan. How can we understand reality through and beyond language? And how can art generate new ways of looking at meaning?

CC Hennix’s artistic practice is both multi-layered and philosophically profound. As an artist, musician and mathematician, she was drawn to questions relating to the nature of knowledge and consciousness. During the 1990s, she became interested in the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, including his “mathème” – a set of symbols and formulas that he developed as a pedagogical tool for formalising and presenting the psychoanalytic teaching. She was also drawn to his later work, where he used topological models (such as the Möbius strip) to illustrate the theories on a more direct and intuitive level.

The workshop introduces elements of Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory in CC Hennix’s works at Malmö Konsthall. We will gather in the Workshop for a short lecture, followed by a tour of the exhibition and a practical part where we elaborate on Hennix’s and Lacan’s intuitive methods. What dimensions are unlocked when we break through the symbolic and imaginary formations of understanding?

The workshop is led by Ervik Cejvan, researcher in Philosophy of Religion at Lund University. His own research explores questions of exaggeration, excess and transgression at the intersection between philosophy, art, psychoanalysis and spirituality. He has previously collaborated with, among others, Institutet, Alltet and Aning – Förening för Filosofi och Psykoanalys.

Read more about the exhibition here.