Ann Lislegaard
dal 10/12/2010 al 26/2/2011
Segnalato da
10/12/2010
Ann Lislegaard
Marabou Park Art Gallery, Sundbyberg
Haunted. Tapping of the Fox Sisters. A selection of her recent science fiction-inspired works, which feel particularly urgent in a time when our political culture is characterised by fear and retrospection. During her entire career, Ann Lislegaard has used her body of work to undermine and redefine our perception, identity and relationship to private as well as public spaces.
Ann Lislegaard has, since the beginning of the 1990s, developed an international artistic career centred on film, sound and light installations, whose mind-expanding characteristics are her special attributes. In the exhibition Haunted. Tapping of the Fox Sisters at Marabouparken, we present a selection of her recent science fiction-inspired works, which feel particularly urgent in a time when our political culture is characterised by fear and retrospection. The genre of science fiction is a broad current in popular culture whose power of attraction lies in its ability to make us break our habitual conceptions and reflect on our contemporary age with the help of imaginative alternative worlds, depictions of the future and spectacular "what if" scenarios. Few cultural expressions have, like science fiction, been able to make people ponder complex issues such as the relationship of dependence between past, present and future, sexuality and fear of the unknown. However, the science fiction aficionado is well aware that one does not visit the past with impunity, that alien creatures are just a facet of ourselves and that our contemporary gender roles will have the future laughing at our lack of sophistication.
During her entire career, Ann Lislegaard has used her body of work to undermine and redefine our perception, identity and relationship to private as well as public spaces. For her, the connection to iconic works of science fiction, such as the novels Crystal World by J. G. Ballard, Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and The Female Man by Joanna Russ and films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg, is a way of extending references and making use of meaning–carrying images and themes.
In the exhibition Haunted. Tapping of the Fox Sisters, sound, light and moving images lure us into a Lislegaardian universe in constant transformation in which our attitude to space, time, sexuality and the unknown is tested.
Marabouparken is supported by Veidekke, the City of Sundbyberg, Stockholm’s county council and the Swedish Arts Council.
Image: Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard), 2006
Press contact:
Fredrik Holmqvist tel +46 8 29459 fredrik.holmqvist@marabouparken.se
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