BIRGITTA LUND, “IN TRANSIT”, PHOTOGRAPHY

09-02-2006 – 25-03-2006

This year the first solo exhibition at GALERIE BIRTHE LAURSEN shows internationally recognized Danish art: the gallery presents for the first time in Copenhagen the prize winning photographic series IN TRANSIT by the artist Birgitta Lund. After exhibitions in The United States, France and Finland IN TRANSIT can now be seen in a new form in the city that plays an important role in the series.

Welcome to the opening Thursday February 9th, 2006, 5-8 pm.

The exhibition IN TRANSIT offers a visual journey that through a personal telling draws a bigger picture of the time in which we live. In 2003 Birgitta Lund returned to Copenhagen after having spent 18 years in New York. In a characteristic imagery with diary-like compositions, blurred close-ups and windows wet with rain the artist tells her own story. Her restless mind is shown in movement between many places; apparently recognizable motives from Copenhagen, New York and Madrid capture the viewer with an intimate feeling that keeps holding on. However, this intimate, personal story also opens up a political and cultural picture of our time. It manifests itself at the exhibition through pictures of Ground Zero, the attacks on Madrid and American soldiers on TV. The personal draws a bigger and general picture, enabling the exhibition IN TRANSIT to concern everybody. The photographs of Birgitta Lund are both beautiful and fragile, strong and concrete.

Birgitta Lund was born in Copenhagen in 1964. She studied at the International Center of Photography, New York, and she has numerous solo and group exhibitions behind her. In 2005 she was awarded the prestigious French award ”Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie”, followed by the monograph “IN TRANSIT” published at French Actes Sud. Later in the year, Birgitta Lund received the Danish ‘Fogtdal’s Photographer Award 2005’.

The exhibition continues through March 25th, 2006.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Visual Arts