SINGING WITH THE WOLVES
2022-09-12In fairy tales and myths it is quite common that the fate of humans and animals interact. Very often humans transform into animals and back to humans again, when the spell is broken. In the video animation East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen, the title leads us
to a Nordic fairy tale about a prince who by a curse has become a white bear and lives East of the Sun and West of the Moon. It is unknown why, but this fairy tale ended up to become a song performed by Frank Sinatra in 1940. During their stay in Hybrida, an artist residency in Sweden, Margit Lukács and
Persijn Broersen encountered an ancient wasteland of the iron industry that had turned into wilderness and was inhabited by wolves. Triggered by the landscape and the wolves, in collaboration with Smári Róbertsson, the artist duo transformed Sinatra’s song into a desperately growling plea for love,
embodied by a white wolf. Spinning in circles, the hybrid wolf-man-creature is torn between the natural and the virtual, the animal and the human within him.
Opposite – Charlotte Schleiffert, Save Ukraine, 2022
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022
AKINCI
Lijnbaansgracht 317
1017 WZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
