Merete Slyngborg

Windows, 2008

Windows, 2008

Description

From the artist: "My name is Merete Slyngborg and I am studying at my third year at The Funnen Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark. I heard about your project through Mette. Before you decided that your location should be secret, she told me about it, I therefore choose to submit my work Windows from Leeds and Copenhagen, based on the idea of how it could work in the place of Common Place.

I know that you are basically searching for artists in the UK, but how would you feel about curating a lie some Danish dirt? After all you?ve got some explaining to do!

About the work: About 5 min, the video loops.

Windows from Leeds and Copenhagen is a video projection, which you will be able to see from the outside of the Common Place.

The video consists of drawings, which represent different windows from Copenhagen and the city of Leeds. I filmed the drawings on the floor one by one with an interval of 10 seconds. This will give the impression that the windows are constantly changing character. I would like the video to be projected from the inside of the galley into some white curtains in one of the windows, so that the work can be viewed from the street.

Windows from Leeds and Copenhagen is an examination of the window as a boarder between the private and the public space. At the same time the window separates and connects private and public sphere. You display your private objects in the windowsill but often with the awareness that this is what people can see from the outside. Hereby you give passing people an impression of who you are as a person. You can see the window as a way of staging yourself. By constantly changing the scenery in my window the work explore this social boarder.

I made the video projection in my own street last year, but only with drawings of windows from Copenhagen. I would find it very exciting to see it in another context. By mixing windows from both Denmark and from Leeds the work gets a new layer, a cultural layer. Do we represent our self differently in different places? And are you as an audience able to see this difference between social boundaries. These are some of the things I would like to examine with this work."

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