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Another of the
wonderful Galleries that I visited in Copenhagen was Arken.
One of their
exhibition spaces presented a selection of works about gender, questioning and
challenging what shapes our attitudes to male/female and the stereotypical
views that can and do entrap us.
http://www.arken.dk/content/us/art/exhibitions/love_me_gender
Mona Hatoum’s ‘Sous
tension’ is an installation of sieves, molies, colanders and graters
intermittently lit and trailing wires ominously buzzing. Set in a darkened
recess it particularly caught my attention. The text suggested that the kitchen
with all its memories of cosiness and warmth was also place of disaster and
threat. Gathered up with that thought was also the idea that the role of the woman,
safely in the home, may not always be one of comfort…mmm…something ominous
prickling beneath the surface…things are not quite what they seem…’mirror
mirror on the wall’.
Yet again such
a simple, mundane group of objects but communicating so much!
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