Galleri Image has a great pleasure to present an exhibition at Århus Kunstbygning:

Kyungwoo Chun, South Korea

“Being a Queen”

28th of August - 1th of November 2009

The starting point for "Being a Queen" is the way in which Danes reflect themselves in the persona of Queen Margrethe. The project is a tribute to Her Majesty and the role she plays in the imaginary of the Danish population. The importance of the Queen to the self-understanding of the Danish people is thematised by Kyungwoo Chun by the use of staged portraits and video interviews with Danish men and women. All the participants consider themselves to possess either a physical or a mental similarity to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe. Portraiture, plainly, plays a key role in the project: the subjects have been individually photographed wearing a copy of a dress worn by Queen Margrethe . The exposure time of these portraits varies according to the age of the subjects. By such means, Kyungwoo Chun creates fascinating and intense portraits which also reflect upon the history of photography as a medium. Taken as a whole, they demonstrate Chun's special interest in how the photographic process - on both a technical and a conceptual level - seems to be able to capture, and reproduce, absence.
Kyungwoo Chun searches for the Queen in each individual, yet finds the individual in every Queen.

The King Frederik and Queen Ingrid Foundation, Hannan Marselis Hotel, Bruun Rasmussen Art Auctions house, BG Fonden and Kulturudviklingspulje, Århus Kommune have generously

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