Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding
Summary
In the relation between Greenland and Denmark Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, a 16mm film installation, explores different layers of images, facades and labour.
Supported by
NAPA (https://napa.gl/en/)
The Danish Arts Foundation (https://www.kunst.dk/english/danish-arts-foundation/)
Description of project
Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding
Eva la Cour & Tinne Zenner, 2019
16mm double projection: 13min 25sec, loop + 10min 30sec, loop.
Digital projection: 10min 30sec, loop. (Filming of Kulbrudet, Marmorbrudet.mov (Jette Bang, 1938) at The National Museum of Denmark’s Archive, HD video).
Honeycomb is the name of a technique used in facade restoration of marble. In Denmark several buildings worthy of preservation is covered with marble from Greenland, extracted during the inter-war period (1930s). Among other buildings is Overformynderiet (The Public Trustee’s Office) in Copenhagen.
In the work Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, visual artists Eva la Cour and Tinne Zenner juxtapose their own film recordings of the renovation of Overformynderiet in Copenhagen (2019) with Jette Bang’s film recordings from the marble mine in Maarmorilik (1938). In the relation between Greenland and Denmark, the work explores different layers of images, facades and labour.
Type of work
Filmic installation
Published in
The National Museum of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland.
Link to web site
https://vimeo.com/375477680
https://kunstkritikk.com/lions-in-the-arctic/
Date
2019-10-06Creator
la Cour, Eva
Keywords
16mm film
Greenland
Colonialism
Archival footage
Jette Bang
Maarmorilik
Overformynderiet
the Arctic
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng