Fra flyttekasse til montre – arkivet som ordningsprincip

Forfattere

  • Johanne Løgstrup Aarhus Universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.9606

Sammendrag

This article is a critical reading of the retrospective exhibition with the Danish-French artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911-1984) at The National Gallery of Denmark in 2019. The article focuses on the various principles of arrangement that the exhibition uses in its curatorial approaches, such as the archive and the studio. This brings forward specific concerns about the artist, the biography and the working process, which relates to broader perspectives on how to reread female artists in a contemporary condition. The article discusses how the exhibition fails to combine the different arrangement principles, and as a result of this, the exhibition rather tells the relation between the works, the artistic process and the influence on the artist rather than shows it. This happens despite a rich archive that shows Ferlov Mancobas concern about her environment and how the time affected her work. The article draws on theories of the archive and feminism.

Forfatterbiografi

Johanne Løgstrup, Aarhus Universitet

Institutt for kommunikasjon og kultur

Kurator

Nedlastinger

Publisert

2022-03-23

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