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
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