"The Hermit" (2011)
Exhibition:
"The Hermit", solo at Møstings House, Cph, DK (2011)
Art Works:
Installation in four rooms:
Room 1: collage mounted on a scaffold, free standing in space.Materials: print, laminated on dibond board. Dimensions: 160 x 280 cm
Room 2: Projected animation video on back wall of space.Dimensions: 120 x 360 cm.Dur:looped/ 5: 30 min. DV/ PAL video
Room 3:Text as printed matter, benches,MP3 sound stations w/ headphones with recorded speak of the text. Duration of speak: 23 minutes.Floor-video sculpture: materials: MDF board, paper, print, two cardboard boxes, two small video projectors.No sound
Room 4:Collage on wall. Materials: print, laminated on dibond board. Dimensions: 120 x 360 cm
The Hermit is an installation in four rooms in Møstings House, a 17 th century House, now in use as an exhibition house, near Frederiksberg Have, a popular city park dating back to the romantic era.
The exhibition relates to the history of the exhibition space and it´s surroundings - the romantic park from the 18 th cent. Walking through the installation in the four rooms in Moestings House, is meant to associate to the way the park is designed: the viewer cannot overlook the spaces at the same time, but instead, passes through them, and experiences them in a certain order.Also the scale of the works change- from a miniature world seen from the outside, to a 1:1 scale, similarly to the spaces in the park, that seem to interchange between opening up to wide open areas and narrowing in in an intimate scale.The narrative goes as follows:The hermit is absent from a picnic in the park.People from different time periods are in the park simultaneously, having a picnic.A not closely defined community searches for the hermit.Each time period represents different understandings of the collective, the individual and the act of withdrawing from society. The hermit character may point to thoughts on the emerging individualism in the 1800, and loneliness as part of human condition. Other traits used in the Hermit character are the king- who ruled Denmark at the border between absolute monarchy and emerging democracy, google searches on being alone, and a book I inherited from my father´s library on the topic of hermits and the first desert fathers in Egypt. And finally images of crowds and royalty from the 1950's, where the relationship between group and individual was seen as the anonymous individual almost drowning in mass society.
Images from the time periods are used in the art works.
supported by the Danish Arts Council and L.F. Foght's Foundation
