In her series Killing Me Softly (2004) Claudia Reinhardt recreated the suicides of famous women artists, placing herself as the model. In her most recent photographic work Dødspar, Liebespaare she shifts her attention to couples – portrayed by non-professional actors – who committed suicide together. “The ending of a life is an action that occurs…
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The theme of the exhibition is inspired by the Freudian concept ‘the uncanny’. The phenomenon has fascinated artists through time, from the Surrealists to contemporary artists. In 1919 Freud published his essay ’Das Unheimliche’, in which he elaborates on ‘the uncanny’. Though ‘the uncanny’ is not clearly definable, because it relies on personal experience, he…
In the exhibition Negatives Beyond the green Ismar Cirkinagic is focusing on the conflict that arose in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the beginning of the 1990’s. It was a conflict marked by ethnic cleansing and genocide, and the works of Cirkinagic are related to the traces of the ethnic cleansing that took place in the…
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First and foremost Carla Åhlanders pictures tell the story of a kind of forced state of pacience, lost or empty time. When a person is seen in them it is never as an individual but just as a representation of a person, trapped in a story without beginning, middle or end. The situations are often…