Breaking the Law
dal 22/4/2003 al 31/5/2003
Segnalato da
Gulsun Karamustafa
Lars Erik Frank
Gitte Villesen
Maryam Jafri
Nanna Debois Buhl
Katya Sander
Sanne Kofod Olsen
22/4/2003
Breaking the Law
Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
The title does not express an urge to commit a crime. It is rather the intention to change the Law from within. To change history, to change society, to change the gender specifications with which we live. All in all to change dominating Western representation.
(part one)
Gülsün Karamustafa
Lars Erik Frank & Gitte Villesen
Maryam Jafri
Nanna Debois Buhl
Katya Sander
Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen
In the image a work by Nanna Debois Buhl.
"Breaking the Law" does not express an urge to commit a crime. It is rather
the intention to change the Law from within. To change history, to change
society, to change the gender specifications with which we live. All in all
to change dominating Western representation.
In this way "Breaking the Law" takes a feminist point of departure in its
theoretical set-up. However the artists are not necessarily to be seen as
feminist artists, since they do no specificly work with feminist issues.
They can rather be characterized as artists who imply a thinking of
resistance within their works of art in the way in which they describe or
perform their chosen problematics and analyse their subject matter. It
characterises all artist that they imply a deconstruction of conventionalism
and it is in this very act that they break the law.
The exhibition in Sparwasser Hq is intended to be followed up by a "part
two" exhibition, that will take place in Copenhagen in 2004. The curator
would like to get in touch with artists, who relates to the these thoughts
in their artistic projects.
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