EVERY NAME IN HISTORY IS I, 2016, Hanni Kamaly, KHM Gallery.
Press release, April 2023
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the opening of Fear and Fauna, an exhibition with works by Danish and international artists: Gina Arizpe, Hanni Kamaly, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Karim Boumjimar, Sall Lam Toro, Marina Dubia, Ida Lissner, Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza Lau with Ghost Agency. Fear and Fauna is created in collaboration with the exhibition platform, Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4th floor and together we invite you for a glass of wine on May 4.
The exhibition Fear and Fauna hones in on the overlap between race- and gender-based violence and the violence against the more-than-human by simultaneously bringing new perspectives on liberation through mobilization on an individual and collective level. As the title indicates, it looks to a crucial juxtaposition between fear – seen as a decisive indicator of intersectional inequality – and a critique of the historical use and conceptualization of fauna, formulated by the Swedish scientist Carl von Linné, the father of modern taxonomy and ecology, and which, in the categorization of the world's animal kingdom, was also behind the division of humanity into racial types. Fear and Fauna focuses on practices of resistance that point to killing, violence and inequality; as a global phenomenon, and which in virtual and physical realities cuts across class differences, cultures and geographies.
Unfolding in a stately apartment, it is emphasized that gendered and minoritized violence exists in all spaces; the intimate, the public, the physical as well as digital forums. In fierce images of resistance, the exhibition raises subversive notions and historical re-examinations that point to digital life as vital in a larger revolt, and how this and other communities, can lead to the mobilization of hope and liberation.
The exhibition FEAR and FAUNA has been created on the basis of an invitation from the association Dag H 42, and will take place at their address: Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 42D, 4sal, 2100 København.
Opening: Thursday May 4, 5 - 8pm.
Exhibition period: May 4 - June 18, 2023.
More info: www.arielfeminisms.dk
Video still, 2023, Sall Lam Toro.
Drawings, 2023, Space Q, Karim Boumjimar.
Performance program
May 4th, 5-8pm: Cuestión de tiempo. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe, 2023
May 7th, 1-2pm: Cuestión de tiempo. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe, 2023
May 26th 7pm and 8pm: Sall Lam Toro, 2023
June 7th, 2-6pm: Cuestión de tiempo. Durational performance by Gina Arizpe, 2023
PUBLIC PROGRAM
ARI. Readings #Fear and Fauna I. & II.
As part of the exhibition Fear and Fauna, two open reading groups are held. For ARI. Readings Fear & Fauna, the exhibiting artists will present selected literature and other material that in new ways introduce the audience to their practice. The artists will guide the audience through the texts by communal reading and it is not necessary to read in advance. The literature is available at the events and is included in ARIEL ARCHIVE, which is a physical and digital collection of literature developed in parallel with ARIEL's program.
Sunday 7 May 2-4pm: Event held in the exhibition
Sunday 11 June 3-5pm: Event held in the exhibition and online
Mindy Seu, Portrait by Philip Zhou, 2019.
ARIEL ARCHIVE. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Talk by Mindy Seu & Ghost Agency
During the exhibition Fear and Fauna, the audience is invited to an intriguing event where Mindy Seu, who is behind the project and publication Cyberfeminism Index, will give a performative reading followed by a talk and conversation with Ghost Agency, a project by Gro Sarauw and Anni Garza Lau. The event brings a renewed focus on taxonomy and data collection on the web as well as radical techno-critical activism, and touches on feminist perspectives from artistic, literary and technological practices.
Wednesday 7 June 6-8pm: Event held in the exhibition and online