Meet Krista Svalbonas – solo artist 2022 under the Framing Vision category
"I think there's an importance to this work right now, especially since history is repeating. We are seeing the war in Ukraine, which kinds of mirrors this story as well."
The Baltic-American artist Krista Svalbonas is the woman behind the exhibition "Displacement" which won this year's open-call in the category Framing Vision and which is the amazing, thought provoking and scarily relevant result of an intensive research process into the history of her family's Baltic roots. Her parents fled the Russian regime after World War II and Svalbonas project excavates this history.
We were happy to have the chance to meet and interview Krista when she was visiting the festival for the install and opening last weekend.
Svalbonas' laser-cut photographs can be experienced at the festival until this Sunday, so don't hesitate to stop by!
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Meet Alexandra Rose Howland – solo artist 2022 under the Framing Society category
"With my work I'm trying to relook at things that we've already seen before, and to rephotograph them in a way that challenges our perspective and challenges the narrative that we've already formed in our minds about these locations."
Alexandra Rose Howland (US/UK) has spent the last decade living in the Middle East. Throughout this time, Howland became aware that what a foreigner views and photographs does not always embody the lived reality of locals, and Howland began asking to download first-person accounts; from selfies to family photos, to Snapchats. The resulting Leave and Let Us Go is an intimate and multi-dimensional portrait of Irak and Iraqis that returns the narrative power of an often-misunderstood country to its own citizens.
We were happy to have the chance to meet and interview Alexandra when she was visiting the festival for the install and opening. You can experience Alexandra's work at the festival until tomorrow evening, so don't hesitate to stop by the Festival Center this weekend!
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Meet Hien Hoang - solo artist 2022 under the Framing Identity category
"I want to talk about the clichés and stereotypes about Asian people in the West using food as the output. I think food is a very powerful medium, and it says a lot about our country, our heritage, our identity, our memories."
Meet Hien Hoang! The artist behind the Festival Center exhibition 'Asia Bistro – Made in Rice'.
The Vietnamese artist won our open call in the Framing Identity category this year with her project. We were very happy to have her here for the opening of the exhibition at Refshaleøen last week. Here she gives an introduction to herself and her amazing exhibition, work and practice!
Hien's exhibition is open until June 12 at the Festival Center.
Video credit: Sonia Tomegros Regalado