As the clock ticks closer to the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 World Outgames in Copenhagen on Saturday, July 25, the first opening of the World Outgames’ cultural program kicked off in the Denmark city on Friday, May 29.
‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ presents a series of thought-provoking works that generate new narratives based on private memories and experiences beyond gender and sexuality norms.
Using the potent and emotionally laden detritus of society, like found silent-movie footage, garments from the family past, and desecrated and fictionalized photo albums, the works in Lost and Found recreate, deconstruct and reconstruct the past.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with contributions by Jane Rowley, Louise Wolthers, Mathias Danbolt, Anne Cvetkovich and Heather Love.
It runs through Aug. 2.
For more information, go to www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk.