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Galleri Image is pleased to announce an exhibition by

Birgitta Lund

In Transit

Opening reception Saturday January 8, 2005 from 2-4 pm

The exhibition will be on view from January 9th through the 30th, 2005. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 1-5 pm.

Birgitta Lund’s photographs depict a world disintegrated where reality in all its forms and aspects – individual, collective, political, personal – is in continuous motion. The Journey is the leitmotif, the form of travel is nomadic; there is a perpetual, never-ending rhythm between departure, transit, and arrival.

On one hand there is a personal journey from the United States to Europe – Lund recently moved back to Denmark after living 18 years in New York. On the other hand there is a depiction of the timeframe in which the move has taken place: 9/11, the war on Iraq, the Madrid attack, along with globalization and alienation all echo into the work.

Some of the photographs are very specific: Ground Zero, the Pentagon exit, the harbors of New York and Copenhagen. Others are concentrated on more complex metaphors: a model railway, a house covered by sand, an artificial horserace.

In Lund’s work the concrete journey becomes a metaphor for disintegration and departure on many levels. Autobiographical elements intertwine with the timeframe she depicts, both thematically and visually, in her photographs. The traveler steps lightly on Earth and is in constant motion. Simultaneously the pictures become fixed points from which the traveler seeks to orient herself in a world – and a life – in transit.

Birgitta Lund (born 1964) works with photography and installation. Her work is widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is represented in several museums and private collections in both Europe and North America. In Transit will mark Birgitta Lund’s first solo exhibition in Denmark since she returned in 2003.

The exhibition will consist of 18 framed color photographs with dimensions ranging from 35x45 cm to 60x92 cm.

In connection with the exhibition a small catalogue with an introduction by Rasmus Lanken Ottesen will be published. The text can be read at http://www.galleriimage.dk/Udstillinger-2005/januar-tekst-engelsk.htm