Í Útúrdúr flóruna var nýlega að bætast við bókinn Personne ici n’est innocent (No one here is innocent) eftir norsku listakonuna Kjersti G. Andvig. Verkið fjallar um samskipti Kjersti við mann á dauðadeild í Texas. Samskipti þeirra felst meðal annars í því að Kjersti biður Carlton A. Turner um að prjóna klefann sinn í fangelsinu eins og hann leggur. Í sýningu sem Kjersti hélt í tengslum við bókina setur hún prjónaða klefann upp. Kjersti tengir hugmyndir sínar um prjónaskap við “Tricoteuse” sem var kona sem prjónað meðan á aftökum stóð í frönsku byltingunni.
“The perception of what’s good and what’s evil are very prominent at this time and age, and I guess it would be correct to say it is these ideas, or preconceptions of right and wrong, I wish to explore and call into questions in my work” (Kjersti G. Andvig)
New in Útúrdúr
Útúrdúr recently got a new book called "Personne ici n’est innocent" (No one here is innocent) by the Norwegian artist Kjersti G. Andvig. In her book Kjersti portrays her communication with a man on death row in Texas. Their communication involves Kjersti asking the inmate, Carlton A. Turner, to knit his complete cell and thereby reproduce it. Kjersti connects her ideas with knitting in this relation to the “Tricoteuse” which was a woman of low status that knitted in the executions of the French revolution.
“The perception of what’s good and what’s evil are very prominent at this time and age, and I guess it would be correct to say it is these ideas, or preconceptions of right and wrong, I wish to explore and call into questions in my work” (Kjersti G. Andvig)