North Atlantic Pavilion

Exhibition

15 Sept

Liverpool Biennial
September 2012

The inaugural North Atlantic Pavilion brought together artists from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands as part of City States at the 2012 Liverpool Biennial.

Hosted in the former Royal Mail Sorting Office at Copperas Hill, the exhibition featured new works from artists including Sigurður Guðjónsson (Iceland), Hanni Bjartalíð (Faroe Islands) and Jessie Kleemann (Greenland). The preview event featured a live performance of Sassuma Arnaa / The Mother of the Sea by Jessie Kleemann, Iben Mondrup and Niels Lyngsø.

“These are international discoveries from unfamiliar places, true international artists whose work feels tangibly of its place, who take some searching out and who do not yet speak the ubiquitous art Esperanto that makes so many contributions to so many biennales feel so interchangeable.”

- Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times

The exhibition showcased installations performance and moving image works by artists form counties in the North Atlantic. Their work challenges and dissects the tensions that exist in embracing a strong national and regional identity - focusing especially on work that questions the received notions and surface appearances of what 'hospitality' means.

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North Atlantic Pavilion

Liverpool BiennialSeptember 2012

“These are international discoveries from unfamiliar places, true international artists whose work feels tangibly of its place, who take some searching out and who do not yet speak the ubiquitous art Esperanto that makes so many contri­butions to so many biennales feel so interchangeable.”

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“These are international discoveries from unfamiliar places, true international artists whose work feels tangibly of its place, who take some searching out and who do not yet speak the ubiquitous art Esperanto that makes so many contributions to so many biennales feel so interchangeable.”