KW, in collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK), presents the first solo exhibition of works by artist Pia Arke (1958–2007) to be shown outside of Kalaallit Nunaat, also known as Greenland, and the Nordic countries. Arctic Hysteria takes its title from an influential work series by Pia Arke and brings together her photographic, sculptural, performative and written work, as well as her work on paper. It aims to shed light on the narratives enclosing the colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark, as seen through Arke’s works, and to open it up to a discussion of continuing colonial structures at large. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication with newly commissioned texts to discuss different aspects of Arke’s practice within an international discourse, with an emphasis on voices of contemporary feminist researchers.
Press release courtesy KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
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