The exhibition is a part of Liverpool Biennial Independents and NICE08. The exhibition is up during the whole period of the biennial: 20 September - 30 November 2008. Sponsored by The Norwegian Embassy.
Maren Juell Kristensen's work is concerned with the expectation of meaning and the wish for fulfilment and purpose. She frequently uses video, both as a device for storytelling and as a physical presence of light where the dramaturgical and material composition of the video is an essential part of the concept. The recurrent, familiar and repeating narratives in mass media and popular culture are used for their symbolic and emotive values. Often within a pictorial language and directness borrowed from other media. With the exhibition Art Will Absolve Me Maren Juell Kristensen’s works revolves around ‘doing the right thing’ and what happens when something terrible becomes neutralised, or even beautiful from a far away perspective. With references to Nietzsche’s Beyond good and evil and Susan Sontag’s Regarding the pains of others, Maren Juell Kristensen wants to approach this at a multiple angle with an underlying naive search for meaningfulness which also questions the value of the art object and purpose of art in this context. The exhibition consists of 4 video pieces and 4 watercolour series, where the installation and objectification is as important as the content.
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