Outdoor exhibition: Nærum Hovedgade, 2850 Nærum, Denmark
4 April to 31 May 2024
This outdoor exhibition of paintings and drawings explores 12 views from a single road in the suburban town of Nærum, in the region of greater Copenhagen, Denmark.
This site-specific exhibition located at different points along Nærum Hovedgade documents 12 different suburban dwellings and uses landscape painting as site-specific, by displaying paintings at the actual location of their subject. The paintings show this suburban landscape through multiple identities of, apartment buildings, houses, and their surrounding trees and hedges. I see painting as a form of “place-making” to re-imagine this Danish residential road and transform the everyday into an idealised suburban space. As with the suburban landscape itself, there is a nostalgic desire for an identity of dwelling and belonging.
Exhibited outdoors the works are both formally determined and dominated by their environmental context. The art-site relationship is one between subject/object and actual location, with works being confronted by the tangible reality of their subject and the compositional demands of their working. This is emphasized by the inclusion of over 70 sketches showing preparatory ideas and alternative 'ways of looking'. The title of each work relates to the geographic position of their view or dwelling.
