Less International Festival of Contemporary Collage

Collageinstallation in the centre of Viborg, Denmark

19 september- 18 October 2020

More information can be found at: https://lessfestivalofcollage.com/

From the festival web site:  "Set in the historic town of Viborg, Denmark,LESS festival celebrates how art can transform our visual and urban landscapes through radical art exhibitions and immersive installations. Our inaugural festival presents twelve collage artists working in print, sculpture and moving-image:"

Curators: s. Sviatchenko and Faye Dowling

Participating artists:

Penny Slinger [UK/US], Sergei Sviatchenko  [UK/UA], Nico Krijno [SA], Lucia Pizzani [BR/UK],
Noriko Okaku [JP/UK], K Young [UK], Donnachie & Simionato [AUS], Juliet Casella [FR], James Springall [UK], Anna Bu Kliewer [GER/UK], DR. ME [UK],Kirsten Otzen Keck [DK].

 

Participating work: "One Day", which consists of 7 collages. 4 of these are shown on site in Viborg.

The work is inspired by the novel "the waves " by Virginia Woolf, in which a single day is contextualising the entire life span of a group of friends.

"One Day" is set in a surreal. sci-fi, cloudlike space, where technology for communication and image projection seems to grow into new nature. A lamp on a work table turns on, and the day begins. A group of people are stuck between destinations. In the night a young woman listens for signals with an antenna. Elsewhere people have a pick nick in the park. Light comes after darkness during the hours of a day.

The expression "one day" that signifies hopefulness or projections into the future, may indicate the double meaning of the work, as a work contemplating both the the everyday passing of time and the future time.

4 of these 7 collages were shown at Nytov / Vestergade in central Viborg,