Curved Caryatid Gaze

Udstilling: Refer
med kunstnersammenslutningen Guirlanden
Museum Of Classical Archaeology
University of Cambridge2022

Curved Caryatid Gaze er placeret ved siden af MOCAs afstøbning af en af de 6 Karyatider, kvindefigurerne, der står som søjler på Akropolis i templet Erechteions sydlige søjlehal. Jeg filmede på Akropolis nogle videosekvenser ved Erechtheion-templet. “Set med Karyatidernes blik”. Hvad de ser. Drivende skyer på den blå himmel. Gæsterne på højen, turisterne som bevæger sig rundt, i silhuet, med selfiestænger og rastløse lemmer, så opslugt af at iscenesætte og se sig selv at Parthenontemplet i glimt forvandles til en antik scenografi og baggrundstæppe for det selvbetragtende selfie-stang-styrede kameraøje. Videoen er bygget ind i halvkugleformede malerier, inspireret af øjets iris.

The artwork Curved Caryatid Gaze is installed alongside MOCA’s plastercasts of the Caryatids in Athens. I did some video recordings at Acropolis,the Temple of Erechtheion, where six Caryatids are bearing the roof of thetemple. Video recordings “from the Caryatids ́point of view”. What is in front of them. Clouds wandering on the blue sky, people wan-dering around. People in silhouettes holding selfie sticks in their hands, restless, so engulfed in staging themselves that the Parthenon Templetransforms in glimpses into an antique scenography. A stage carpet for theself-observing camera eye.The video is built into hemispheres that are mounted on the wall. Theseobjects are hemispherical paintings, inspired by the eye iris.
The exhibition Refer is the second in a series of exhibitions with antiquity as its focal point and based on the collections of the museums of antiquity. The ambition is to update the ancient heritage through the eyes of a number of contemporary artists and to put the archaeological collection into play in new ways: L, Antikmuseet in Aarhus, 2018 / Refer at the University of Cambridge, 2022 / Xammlung at Justus-Liebig Universität, 2025 / Agora, Antikmuseet in Aarhus, 2027.

title: Curved Caryatid Gaze
technique: painting, video installation
size: 450 x 120 x 30 cm
AMP 2022

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