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[February 28th 2002]
Pressrelease


Places of Worship
The Icelandic Love Corporation
March 2nd - March 22nd
Opening reception with performance March 2nd, 7-11pm

the leisure club MOGADISHNI
Artillerivej 40 house 9 stair b floor 4
DK 2300 Copenhagen
tel. +45 32 54 35 35
fax. +45 32 54 35 45
Wed thru Fri 12-5pm, sat 12-3pm
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com


It is a great pleasure to present the solo exhibition "Places of Worship" by The Icelandic Love Corporation (Iceland). The first exhibition by ILC in Denmark ever!

The Icelandic Love Corporation is a group of three artists; Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir (1973), Jóní Jónsdóttir (1972), and Eirún Sigurardóttir (1971). They have been working together since they graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1996. Since then they have lived and studied in New York, Berlin, Copenhagen and Reykjavík and are now famous for their performances and installations.

"Places of Worship": "In the inside world there are sacred places. They range from being soft and light to hard and tough. They are white punk. In the outside world, places of worship are dangerous. A spiders web is a natural masterpiece, a beautiful construction, a deathtrap ", ILC 2002.

"In a cynical, corrupt era the Icelandic Love Corporation stand firm in their belief that love redeems us all. This is adhered to without irony and in the full knowledge of the potential brutality of the human race. That1s not to say they are serious about all this. Their work is fueled by champagne, a natural capacity for mayhem and a devout respect for Dolly Parton. From the beginning, their performances have been marked by an irreverence for the traditional gravity of the art form and an unusual and touching affection for their audience. It1s as if they really want to communicate. In the work that brought them to national attention in Iceland they kissed each other live on television before one of them pressed her lips to the screen and kissed the entire nation".
(from unconditional love (and the corporate stance), Francis Mckee, 2002.

At the opening The Icelandic Love Corporation will do the performance "Melody".

We welcome you in the gallery.

The leisure club MOGADISHNI
Artillerivej 40 house 9 stair b floor 4
DK 2300 Copenhagen
tel. +45 32543535
fax. +4532543545
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com


















 


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