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LAILA SVENSGAARD DRAWING
Eks-rummet, Copenhagen, Denmark
05.05.2016 - 29.05.2016

Press release

- My approach to drawing is performative. I consider my drawings traces of my body. My physical body is a container that records the world in which I live. It records sound, motion, colour, smell, texture and so on. My drawings are transcriptions of these recordings. My drawings are made in layers just as the recordings that my body contains are in layers. I keep layering until the complexity of the drawing matches the complexity of the recorded layers in my body.

- I draw on paper with pencil. The material leaves a physical trace of me in the drawing. In the process of making a drawing there is no distinction between the drawing, the material I draw with and on and the body that draws. At that very point of creation the material, the intension and form is united in the one act of drawing.

- Laila Svensgaard, 2016

Eks-Rummet is pleased to announce Laila Svensgaard Drawing, an exhibition and ¬a performative drawing in the making.

Laila Svensgaard Drawing is a two-part operation of performance and exhibition. It is an investigation of history, space, identity and freedom.

Laila Svensgaard Drawing is an investigation into the act of drawing where the body acts as a conductor of knowledge. During the first 2 weeks of the show the artist daily draws live, for the viewers, to a recording of her own voice reading aloud Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own.

Laila Svensgaard Drawing was a performance and an exhibition. It was an investigation into the experience of private and collective space. The performance addressed ways we experience space, which access we have to different spaces and ways personal history and collective history can embed and inform each other in body and act.

For two weeks Laila Svensgaard was daily drawing on the floor of the gallery space. The audience was allowed to access the gallery, but denied access to the sound Svensgaard was drawing to. Wearing headphones she was drawing to an audio recording of her own voice reading aloud Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. In this act of transcribing her own voice the piece examined how knowledge and experience are conducted in body and voice through time and space.

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