With the solo exhibition INTO THE FUNNEL OF MELANCHOLY, designed specifically to the rooms in Møstings Hus, Michael Würtz Overbeck unfolds an exhibition that through installation, objects, sculpture, and video, metaphorically and psychologically acquires the character of an inner odyssey.

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INTO THE FUNNEL OF MELANCHOLY illuminates a fundamental sentiment of loneliness and a loss of cohesion with the world. Man is lost with the sense of pointlessness in an unmanageable world. As human being you may be struck by an existential emptiness – a melancholy – which includes doubt, discouragement and alienation from the outside world. A status que and an all-absorbing nothingness, where everything feels absurd and without purpose.

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Another fundamental condition that we cannot escape from is time. Time is constantly running, and we can neither maintain it nor get it back. From the moment we are born and begin to exist, time starts running and reach the moment where we don't exist anymore. But we also live in the shadow of the mortality of our fellow human beings. The other's temporariness and death interfere with our own lifecycle and affects our view of the world around us.