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press release
- Lise Harlev
Press release -
Lise Harlev
Har du nogensinde l¿jet om hvor du kom fra?
(Have you ever lied about where you're coming from?)
April 25 - June 8 2002
Opening Thursday April 25 2002 from 17-19
It is a great pleasure to present an exhibition with Lise Harlev's
latest works. The show consists of lo-fi copied posters in diverse
colours and sizes. The writing on the posters asks questions about
nationality and sense of belonging in connection to travelling,
living abroad or staying in one's native country.
The typography and layout seem familiar. Lise Harlev has used the
layout standards and illustrations known from common computer programs
such as "Word". These programs offer the user an easy, catchy and
well-arranged typography which makes it possible for everybody to
become a layouter in an instant. It is a standardized aesthetics
often seen in workplaces for presentation of projects, in canteens,
on notice boards or in other kinds of institutional contexts.
This standardized way of expressing oneself corresponds to the questions
asked. Likewise, they represent common views on nationality and
the identity interwoven with it. They do not solely represent one
point of view but comment on different angles to the question of
nationality. In this way they poke the spectator and challenges
him/her to adopt an attitude to the questions of national identity
in the light of globalization and cultural intervention.
Lise Harlev works mainly with text. Former works have examined the
conditions of living abroad in connection to suddenly becoming a
"representative" of your native country. Or she has worked with
the questions of how to pick up a new language. The texts, sayings
and questions are always presented in a familiar layout, e.g. taken
from institutional exhibition posters or pamphlets from the authorities.
The design really interacts with the text and makes it into powerful,
authoritarian statements. In this exhibition, however, the layout
seems more "democratic" and adds a notion of the posters being working
papers since you are also welcome to take some of them home and
answer the questions there in your familiar surroundings.
Lise Harlev will graduate this summer from The Royal Danish Art
Academy. She participates in the following exhibitions (among others)
this year: Big Torino 2002, International Biennial of Young Art;
Babel 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Manifesta 2002,
Frankfurt. This is the first time she shows in Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
The show is curated by Birgitte Kirkhoff Olsen.
If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy
to assist you.
Kind regards,
Birgitte Kirkhoff Olsen
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