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[15.april 2004]
Pressemeddelelse
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Life is too short!
Kirkhoff
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Life is too short!
Åbning fredag 16. april kl. 17-20
18. april - 19. maj 2004
Kirkhoff
Amager Fælledvej 43
2300 København S
Tlf: 32 95 46 00
fax: 32 95 46 06
bk@kirkhoff.dk
www.kirkhoff.dk
Åbent ti-fre kl. 12-17, lørdag kl. 12-15
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen presents a new video installation, ”Life
Is too Short!”, 2004. The piece revolves around aspects of
identity, fate and existentialism, questioning how one’s life
could have turned out differently.
”Life Is too Short!” consists of three projections,
each showing a portrait of a Filipino woman in her daily surroundings,
job, home, and with her family. As a half Filipino, raised in the
Filipines in her early childhood, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen investigates
three different lifestyles. Lifestyles that could have been her
own, had her family not moved to Denmark. She humorously imagines
herself being the women and living their lives by literally and
subtlely placing herself in their surroundings, with their husbands
and families. The altogether lyric and dreaming atmosphere in the
piece is both strengthened by the soundtrack (Ravel and a Danish
evergreen) and challenged by the intervening Filipino rap music
and the interviews with the women. The contrast between the European,
Danish and Filipino music reflects the artist’s own identity
and socio-cultural belonging.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen works primarily in the field of new media
such as video and computer animation, which she sometimes combines.
Although her videos are inspired by documentary she twists the genre
with her aesthetic intention for example split-screen and repetition
in relation to the visual and auditory elements. Her interest lies
in socio-cultural relations, where she examines identity, gender
and socio-cultural relations connected to different communities
in the society. The anthropological and sociological perspectives
on issues of identity and gender pose the question on how socio-cultural
constructions are deeply influenced by different individual circumstances,
specific environments and roots. The examination of the locations
questions how the self is constituted and how people act within
a group either chosen or determined in social situations such as
work, education, leisure time “social activities” or
the basic structure of the family.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen has exhibited widely in instiitutions
and galleries in Europe and Asia (e.g. Museum of Contemporary Art,
Seoul; Rooseum, Sweden; Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark; KIASMA, Helsinki;
Malmö Konstmuseum; BIG the Biennial for young European artists,
Torino; Shedhalle, Zürich; Århus Kunstmuseum, Denmark;
Kunsthalle Vienna; Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Moderna
Museet, Stockholm). This Summer, Lilibeth Cuenca
Rasmussen will participate in Lofoten International Art Festival,
Norway and show at Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark. Later
this year, she’ll exhibit in Toronto. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
is represented in private collections and in Kiasma, Malmö
Konstmuseum and Statens Kunstfond.
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