9 febbraio - 13 aprile 2008, Lund, Sweden
Opening Friday 8 February 6 - 8 pm, at Lund Konsthall, Mårtenstorget 3, Lund, Sweden
the exhibition Ellipsis. Ellipsis features photography, film and video from the 1970s and the early 1980s by Chantal Akerman (b. 1950), Lili Dujourie (b. 1941) and Francesca Woodman (1958-81). This is the first joint exhibition of their work, curated by Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. Lynne Cooke writes: Although born ten years apart and in very different circumstances, the three artists featured in this exhibition each profited from the turn to still photography, and other lens-based technologies – film, slide projection and the newer medium of video – that dominated vanguard art practice in the late 1960s. Taking themselves – their bodies and their immediate circumstances – as their point of departure, during the 1970s all three made performative work for the camera. Tellingly, the sites they favored were mostly their own studios or domestic interiors. Beyond this quite evident concurrence of interest in the self as both artist and model, as subject and object of the gaze, there runs a deeper if more elusive thread that links their art from this period. Less a mood than a state of being, or frame of mind, its content could be described in existential terms as the estranged relation of the female subject to her world; in the terminology of current critical discourse, their abiding preoccupations centered on the construction and representation of identity. […] Ellipsis is organised by Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Info: tel +46 46 355295 fax +46 46 184521 e-mail: lundskonsthall@lund.se; www.lundskonsthall.se