“Today We Escape with Jasper Sebastian Stürup’s movie drawings. The museum institutions otherwise white walls have been transformed into the darkness of the cinema - we enter into this intimate, dim room where we for a time are lost and seduced in the dark and in Stürup’s fragile, delicate lines and inscrutable world of motifs. The film drawings title with its double meaning points naturally to the movies’ classical potential for escapism. In the darkness of the cinema, where for a while, removed from reality, we are transported into another world, one that generates everything from pleasure, lust, angst and hate to tears and delight.

The title refers to the movie world that Stürup is submerged in and draws. A re-occurring feature about these pearls from movie history, all of a more or less obscure character, is that they all in different ways encompass a type of escapism: It can be the escapism of the human in outer space as in the classics - Solyaris, 2001 A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Or it can be of the individual trying to escape his existing reality into hallucinatory drugs, parallel realities, daydreams, sex, lies and constructions. They are in pursuit of a new identity, as when the characters in differing ways grope their way through the drugs, hallucinations, the ravings and the personal breakdowns with genders confused and in a bewildered haze as in Christiane F, Cocksucker Blues, Taxi Driver, Performance, Quadrophenia etc. This forfeiture of the self is categorized in the dimmed rooms of the museum and referring to the cinema; this is also a recurrent theme in the movies Stürup has chosen to rework.”

- Inger Marie Hahn Møller