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WOMEN FOR PEACE, 2005

WOMEN FOR PEACE, 2005

Slide projection

Every day the news is full of reports about people who suffer because of wars and armed conflicts all around the world. At the same time it is a fact that several billions dollars are spent on armament every single day.

The visual art manifestation WOMEN FOR PEACE was an attempt to draw attention to this absurd situation by putting the conflicts in perspective and giving reason a voice. The idea was to have 30 women of different nationalities, ages, and backgrounds send a greeting to the citizens of Copenhagen on International Women’s Day.

30 black and white portraits (30 x 30 m) were projected onto the DLG building at Nordhavn station, accompanied by a number of factual texts which formed the background for the women’s demands for peace.

The exclamation women for peace was a form of chorus which was repeated over and over. The projection therefore took on the character of a cacophonous chorus, in which the many different female voices rose above the roofs of the city with a common message, which was not to be misunderstood.

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WOMEN, 2003

WOMEN, 2003

Billboard Project

In the spring of 2003 a different image type of women than the usual, stereotypical advertising images created at the intersection of advertising and pornography, could be seen on the periphery of the city.

For a period of two weeks, 100 female artists from all around Scandinavia showed their photographic works on 100 billboards at intersections, motorway exits, railway stations, and in the city’s many underground car parks. Billboards have monumental and great visibility in public space, and were therefore the ideal medium for a project which aimed to establish new experiences in the interaction of women and space. The underlying aim of the project WOMEN2003 was to draw a more diverse and nuanced picture of women in public space, and in this way take up a direct and confrontational dialogue with advertising’s predictable depiction of women.

The point of departure for all the participants was the billboard format 333 x 236 cm and the use of photography.

The complexity of the city and its constantly changing atmospheres were likewise important impulses for the project, and shaped, so to speak, an overarching choreography for WOMEN2003, in which the placement of the individual images played an important role.

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ENRICHETTA BANDIERINI, 2003

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ENRICHETTA BANDIERINI, 2003

Installation

In october 2000 my italian nanny Enrichetta Bandierini, passed away. This exhibition at Galleri Leonardi V-idea in Genova, the city where she as a 16 year old girl worked in a factory, is a final greeting to her.

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URBAN RIDE, 2002

URBAN RIDE, 2002

Billboard Project

10 billboards with motives from The Tube, London. The project was shown at Nørreport Station, platform 3, June 4, 2002.

Collaboration with Per Kragh-Müller.

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TRANSITION, 2002

TRANSITION, 2002

Photographic installation

TRANSITION was composed of 12 monumental portraits of women aged 50-60, hung on the ground floor as well as the four storey high glass tower of the former Daells Varehus (Daell’s Department Store) on the corner of Krystalgade and Fiolstræde streets in the centre of Copenhagen. Because each of the portraits was printed on transparent foil, the women appeared to be fleeting mirror-images that took on the space of the city and thus defied the usual invisibility of women in this phase of life.

The installation also consisted of 60 fluorescent tubes which contributed to the project’s urban monumentality, in which the tower in particular appeared, at a distance, as a kind of glowing landmark in an otherwise blacked out street.

The building and the space, centrally positioned in the urban context, were in this way temporarily transformed into an exhibition space.