Showing the video “400 Year Legacy” the first instalment of the new body of work “Chapter IV” in the group show THE COLLECTIVE at Nettie Horn Gallery.

2 JULY – 8 AUGUST 2010
Private View: Thursday 1 July, 6-9 pm

“Venø explores contemporary issues of male identity and the struggles surrounding what it means to be a man in today’s society. His photographs – whose composition and planning is as exquisite as it is rigorous – seem to sit half way between the still frame of an unidentified documentary film and the complex narratives of painting. For this new work, Venø slips into the cinematic moving “still” image and again puts himself in the picture as the main character. His scenes are based on personal facts and specific memories from his past. Venø here presents a video and “automated performance” in which the artist continues to narrate his familial history – here he takes us back to the port where his father returned from years in the merchant navy, impersonating the figure of his father as a young sailor and re-enacting this touching and symbolic moment.”*

Also Showing:
Annie Attridge, Gwenael Belanger, Antti Laitinen, Debbie Lawson, Marko Maetamm,
Oliver Pietsch, Yudi Noor, Kim Rugg and Sinta Werner.

*Text by Nettie Horn