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Unmanned Future 4, Your Silence is Unsettling

Solo show at the Showroom, April 13th - 14th to May 14th, The Factory of Art and Design, www.ffkd.dk Copenhagen, photography Jakob Fruensgaard, Ebbe Stub Wittrup and Jacob

This exhibition forms the largest manifestation to date of the ongoing Unmanned Future project. The work comprises a full size sculptural model in wood of a "drone" - a military reconnaisance plane (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), video and sound. Video projection acts as a back drop for the model. The video is based on a short film recording of a " birdman" jumping from the Eiffel Tower in 1912, trying to fly:
"In the meeting between the plane model and the film the artist situates the viewer in a place between the past and the future, between event and possibility....Through the juxtaposition with the model of the reconnaissance plane the artist creates a synthesis, which places the viewer in a uncomfortable double role as both the gaze and the object of the gaze, thereby lifting the installation to become a reflection on the destined hubris and damnation of the human."

Exhibition text by Mads damsbo, click for full text in Danish and English