Mette Edvardsen — No Title
Performance

Mette Edvardsen
No Title
Past: Friday, April 21, 2017 at 8 PM

Mette Edvardsen created the piece No Title (2014) as a response, a complement, a mirror image of Black (2011). If in Black she was able to invoke objects, domesticity and events by the repetition of a word, in No title, she makes existing things disappear, things as concepts and, as concepts, to start with, they are actually not “there”. Edvardsen understands her practice as “writing in time and space”, and indeed she adheres to the principle that things exist because they are named, and will cease to exist the moment they are un-named. It is the voice of the speaker that makes things appear and disappear, as if in a magical spell, as in the songlines of Aboriginals. The world, as the stage in Mette Edvardsen’s pieces, is empty, and it is language that is able to structure this world and give it the appearance of reality, reality being just one among many possible hallucinations created by language.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 11 am to 6 pm
Admission fee
Free entrance
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The artist
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Mette Edvardsen