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Say It Loud! | By Jeannette Ehlers
@thestudioaccra
Thursday October 13, 2016
7.30 pm | Free!!!
Say It Loud!
Say It Loud! presents and discusses Jeannette Ehlers' practice and it's complexity and relevance for the understanding of history and contemporary society.
Through photography, stills from video art works and performances, newly written texts and interviews by Mathias Danbolt, Alanna Lockward, Lotte Løvholm and Dr. Rolando Vazquez, the book discusses topics such as identity, ethnicity and history, where Denmark's colonial history is the central focal point.
Through her aesthetic works, Ehlers links the official residence of the Danish prime minister, Marienborg, together with Haitian revolution, human trafficking, Kendrick Lamar, slave whip, black skin and personal history.
Say It Loud! is edited by Lotte Løvholm and Ida Højgaard Thjømøe with texts by Mathias Danbolt, Jeannette Ehlers, Alanna Lockward, Lotte Løvholm, Rolando Vázquez and Nikolaj Kunsthal and graphic design by Eller med a. The publishing is supported by Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, Ragnvald og Ida Blix’ Fond, Statens Kunstfond and Ny Carlsbergfondet.
Jeannette Ehlers
Based in Copenhagen , Denmark.Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2006. Experimental nature generally characterises Jeannette Ehlers's work. Image manipulation is often included in the artist's photographic and video based works. On these changeable terms meaning and identity are explored, in both a sophisticated and immediate way.For years she has created cinematic universes that delve into ethnicity and identity inspired by her ownDanish / West Indian background.
She challenges and explores the film medium’s ability to communicate in a visually fascinating and engaging language. Creating imaginative stories with both edge and sharpness,her work still retain the broad appeal. Her pieces revolve around big questions and difficult issues, such asDenmark's role as a slave nation - part of the Danish cultural heritage, which often gets overlooked in the general historiography.
Lotte Løvholm
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Holds an MA in Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen 2014. Ethics and geopolitical structures are essential to Lotte Løvholm's curatorial practice. She works with context and the situation of a given space through her site specific performance art projects that includes “In the Red”,“Contemporary Address” and the upcoming series “AUTO FLT AP OFF”.
She has worked as a curatorial assistant for Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikug and Solvej Ovesen since 2014and is a contributing writer to various art journals among them Kopenhagen Art Institut, Kunsten.nu, Afrikadaa and Contemporary&. She is the editor of “Say It Loud!” an artist book on Jeannette Ehlers practice and assistant editor of the reader "An Age of Our Own Making". She has directed the short film “Lagos in the Red” on artist Jelili Atiku.