Jeannette Ehlers (DK)
Jeannette Ehlers (b. 1973, Holstebro; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen (DK). She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (DK) in 2006, and has since then continued to consistently exhibit internationally. Ehlers was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station, London (UK) in 2022. She is also the co-creator of the public sculpture project ‘I Am Queen Mary,’ Copenhagen (DK) in 2018. Jeannette Ehlers has recently exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK); EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo (FI); MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (US).
Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Ehlers’ work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions, and she insists on the possibility of empowerment and healing in her art, honouring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora in the process.
Whip It Good
Photography
2016
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Kim Coleman
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In The Time Of Ungoing War Can We Flee Into Eachother
Two photostats from the same series and a whip made of rope, banana leaves, indigo fabric and synthetic hair hanging from the wall
2022
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm
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The Gaze
Live performance and video
2017-ongoing
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CAST ON WATER: Eulogies to Sisterhood Across the African Diaspora”
Performance
2023
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Whip It Good
Photography, 2016
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In The Time Of Ungoing War Can We Flee Into Eachother
Two photostats from the same series and a whip made of rope, banana leaves, indigo fabric and synthetic hair hanging from the wall, 2022
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The Gaze
Live performance and video, 2017-ongoing
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CAST ON WATER: Eulogies to Sisterhood Across the African Diaspora”
Performance, 2023
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Lyndon Barrois Jr. (US)
Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s multimedia practice breaks down and re-configures the language of print, design, and popular culture in order to investigate underlying ideology, ethics, and conceptions of value.
Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. 1983, New Orleans; US) is an artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Barrois received his MFA from Washington University, St. Louis (US), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (US). He is half of LAB:D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged two exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Carnegie Museum of Art (US), Artists Space, New York (US); Rubber Factory, New York (US). Recent solo exhibitions include Carnegie Museum of Art (US), Artists Space, New York (US); Rubber Factory, New York (US).
Bloom
Jacquard woven cotton, 127 x 152.4 cm
2019
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Hand Over Fist
Solvent transfers and liquid rubber on primed canvas mounted to panel, and linoleum frame
2023
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'Guardians Gate', installation view at Farfanicchio, 2022, and Masters of Fine Arts, 2011/2022
Wood, latex paint, antique brass elements, cast iron, oil paint, twigs, brass, burlap, packing felt; oil on canvas, artist frame, solvent transfer, plywood, curtains, frames, lights, easels, conservators coat, headlamp; dimensions variable
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Bloom
Jacquard woven cotton, 127 x 152.4 cm, 2019
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Hand Over Fist
Solvent transfers and liquid rubber on primed canvas mounted to panel, and linoleum frame, 2023
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'Guardians Gate', installation view at Farfanicchio, 2022, and Masters of Fine Arts, 2011/2022
Wood, latex paint, antique brass elements, cast iron, oil paint, twigs, brass, burlap, packing felt; oil on canvas, artist frame, solvent transfer, plywood, curtains, frames, lights, easels, conservators coat, headlamp; dimensions variable,
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Addoley Dzegede (GH/US)
Addoley Dzegede’s primary point of departure here is the history of indigo as well as the shifting popularity of the color blue in the West throughout history. She reimagines forms and imagery found while researching the history of the dye’s processing and distribution. Working from diagrammatic illustrations and borrowing from the aesthetics of market vendors and textile artisans, Dzegede renders fossilized records of the pigment’s cultivation.
Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist who grew up in South Florida. She currently lives in Rotterdam, NL where she is a Fulbright awardee in Craft to the Netherlands. She is half of the collaborative duo, LAB:D, with Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Hand Overhand (Trade Bead)
Acrylic and oil paint on joint compound on foam, 36 x 26 x 19 cm
2022
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Bjarke Johansen
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Cortina
Ice dyed (reactive dye) cotton, thread and pleating tape, 109 x 65 cm
2022
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Bjarke Johansen
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Installation view from the exhibition Mercantile
Mixed media
2022
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Bjarke Johansen
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Installation view from the exhibition Mercantile
Mixed media
2022
Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by Bjarke Johansen
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Hand Overhand (Trade Bead)
Acrylic and oil paint on joint compound on foam, 36 x 26 x 19 cm, 2022
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Cortina
Ice dyed (reactive dye) cotton, thread and pleating tape, 109 x 65 cm, 2022
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Installation view from the exhibition Mercantile
Mixed media, 2022
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Installation view from the exhibition Mercantile
Mixed media, 2022
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Addoley Dzegede, Prince of Darkness, 2022
Photo by Bjarke Johansen