"My place /a different place"(2010)
Exhibition:
"My Place/ a Different Place" ,soloshow at the Ringsted Gallery, Ringsted, Denmark, (2010)
The exhibition was awarded a prize by The Danish arts Foundation and supported by the Danish Arts Council
Artworks:
"My place/ a different place" 2010 :Three collages, measures: each 200 x 560 cm. Print on board.
"The Idea of you" 2010: Animation video, dur: 08:30 min/ sound/ miniDV pal
"The text from the blue room- an animated audiobook": Animation video, dur: 23:00 min/ speak of text in 26 chapters/ headphones/ text also as a text book, attached in two copies on the side of the wooden projection containers.
Upon returning from Africa, the main character "I" is feeling rather confused about concepts such as the Other, the Stranger, the familiar.It is to be expected, that distances will have to be overcome, when travelling and becoming the Other and a stranger.But how about distances and the unfamiliar within the familiar?
In the animation video "The Idea about you", a 1960's european air hostess is day dreaming on a plane about the meeting with a senegalese soldier. (senegalese tiralleur) from the first world war French colonial army.In a mix of modern reflective mirror facades, smooth sliding doors in sub ways, air planes and imagery relating back to exchanges and trade in history between Africa and the West, these two characters meet.In the second part of the animation, Kirsten goes to senegal, to meet with locals, who help her create a portable bluescreen - a small carriage with a wooden frame with blue textile mounted onto it.This is going to serve as her place in a public space, she is unfamiliar with.
The animation video "The text from the blue room - an animated audio book" It turned out, that there were many thoughts about The Other, the stranger and the familar, in the blue room (blue screen), and in this animation, the large scale perspective involving different continents and History itself, shrinks into a text in 26 chapters, about the identity which is fragile, constantly threatening to have a break down into oblivion and fragmentation.
supported by the Danish Arts Council and awarded a prize by the Danish Arts Foundation
