IMAGE CARRIER / BILLEDBÆRER
Exhibition
Myne Søe-Pedersen / Lotte Fløe Christensen / Kirstine Autzen
Bladr, Copenhagen
10. March – 2. april 2022
About the exhibition
Three artists with a background in photography have placed photographs from their individual archives into a new, shared archive. Based on these images, they explore how new connections can emerge when the collective takes over from the individual and the boundaries between practices dissolve.
The exhibition title “Image Carrier” is borrowed from the image-making process itself. The image carrier is that which—or the one who—carries the image. Physically, this could be the paper, canvas, wooden panel, or wall. The hard drive and the computer monitor. But also the potential image: the negative, the printing plate, the matrix, the cliché. In human form, the potential image exists in memory, imagination, on the retina—just as we carry images on our skin and in our clothing.
We are all image carriers. We carry images around on our mobile phones. We hang old pictures on new walls when we move. In a supermarket shopping bag, the packaging is filled with images. And we carry images that lie deeper within us—dream images, memories, visions that haunt us. Images we may not fully understand, or that take on new meaning again and again throughout life.
The exhibition Image Carrier explores the ability of images to move from one context to another—between people, between archives and media—and to enter into new meanings. Through video, wall-based works, and four very special books, the three artists examine the flexibility of images.
The exhibition has been created specifically for the exhibition space Bladr, a specialist bookstore and platform for artist books on Griffenfeldsgade in Copenhagen.
Three artists with a background in photography have placed photographs from their individual archives into a new, shared archive. Based on these images, they explore how new connections can emerge when the collective takes over from the individual and the boundaries between practices dissolve.
The exhibition title “Image Carrier” is borrowed from the image-making process itself. The image carrier is that which—or the one who—carries the image. Physically, this could be the paper, canvas, wooden panel, or wall. The hard drive and the computer monitor. But also the potential image: the negative, the printing plate, the matrix, the cliché. In human form, the potential image exists in memory, imagination, on the retina—just as we carry images on our skin and in our clothing.
We are all image carriers. We carry images around on our mobile phones. We hang old pictures on new walls when we move. In a supermarket shopping bag, the packaging is filled with images. And we carry images that lie deeper within us—dream images, memories, visions that haunt us. Images we may not fully understand, or that take on new meaning again and again throughout life.
The exhibition Image Carrier explores the ability of images to move from one context to another—between people, between archives and media—and to enter into new meanings. Through video, wall-based works, and four very special books, the three artists examine the flexibility of images.
The exhibition has been created specifically for the exhibition space Bladr, a specialist bookstore and platform for artist books on Griffenfeldsgade in Copenhagen.
