Nina Beier and Marie Lund
Represented by:
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Contact:
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For Nina Beier's solo activities see:
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Current duo exhibitions:
-THE TESTIMONY, LES SABOTS, THE MAKING OF DIFFERENCE, THE COMPLETE WORKS’, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Dec- Feb
-curated by Ilaria Gianni and Cecilia Canziani
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About
Berlin and London-based Danish artists Nina Beier and Marie Lund work collaboratively as well as individually within their practise.
The work of Berlin and London based artists Nina Beier and Marie Lund is often typified by and a consequence of collaboration, yet individually authored works are also co-opted into and much part of their practice. Their work functions as a challenge, one that pushes the borders of what constitutes artwork and art object and where performance, the performative and the roles of perception and interpretation are regularly reassessed, redesigned and reinvigorated. Most notably apparent also, is that their work Ò albeit induced in and spanning various forms of media Ò often operates as an instruction, a set of rules that form the work and allow it to take place in a number of venues, but always never devoid of a sense of situational and site intent. Signalling Beier and LundÌs approach well, Autobiography (if these walls could speak) (2009-) displays two frequent elements appearing in their work, the participation of a gallery and its staff, and aspects of history and archaeology. The work is formed by an instruction to the gallerists of the space in which its displayed, to recall, by memory, the holes made from hanging artwork in previous exhibitions within the space, which were subsequently filled in. Excavating and reopening each, with the resulting material left on the gallery floor, the piece comes to highlight the galleries history, leaving a trace of its previous actions and opening out what is usually hidden to the viewing public. A shared interest in placing the concealed and elements ancillary to artwork and exhibition into the foreground, The Difference between Humans and Walls (2007), occurring initially at Tate Britain, involved several gallery guards blocking different passages of the building and dispersing and regrouping in another destination when a visitor required to pass.
Text Adam Carr
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'THE TESTIMONY, LES SABOTS, THE MAKING OF DIFFERENCE, THE COMPLETE WORKS’, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Dec- Feb -2009
Event, ICA, May-Nov, 2008