Efter en kort pause åbner demorummet igen med Hilarius Hofstede som kurator. Hilarius Hofstede er billedkunstner og forfatter, og han overtager demorummet efter billedkunstner Lasse Krog Møller.

Galleri Image har fornøjelsen at præsentere installationen

"Do not become the slave of your own success"

af den hollandske kunstner Gillion Grantsaan.

.... Damian Hirst wasn't shocking; we, the society needed him to be shocking.
I always wonder why they don't get shocked by a Moroccan artist, who really makes
work that we don't understand? I know, I know, the simple response is,
"because we don't get it".
We can only be shocked by something we already know.

True innovation never happens within the same family of ideas, of cultural values.
True innovation comes from the collision between different perspectives on the same situation.
And the two perspectives are in their own right true. The collision with a strong creole culture and
the oppressive Western society was the spark for innovative black and white musicians to develop
Rock and Roll.
These two cultures still exist, but they don't mix.
People mix ideas, but the cultures don't mix.
We talk about a multicultural society, thinking the cultures will mix....
but they don't, they never will.

quotes from previous interviews G.H. Grantsaan

GILLION GRANTSAAN born 1968 in Paramaribo, Suriname
lives and works Copenhagen and Amsterdam
www.ogrigillion.org

EDUCATION
1996 G. Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

Velkommen til fernisering fredag den 25. maj 2007 kl. 16 – 18

Gillion Grantsaan vil være til stede ved ferniseringen.

Demorummet er døgnåbent.