ARTIST

ANNAROSA KRØYER HOLM

MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art.

Annarosa Krøyer Holm works within Political Minimalism, where simple gestures (texts, sculptures, installations) are encoded with political or ideological meaning. Her resent work explores the interlocking of the European colonialism and the ideals emerging in 18th century Neoclassicism.

Annarosa Krøyer Holm is a part of the collective Hvidme Archive together with Miriam Haile.

Unravelings

For the exhibition Unravelings Annarosa Krøyer Holm shows her work Chromophobia fig. 1 and together with Miriam Haile presents Hvidme Archive.

Chromophobia fig. 1 is made directly into the white wall of the exhibition space. Around 3 mm of the existing wall has been removed, in order to build a lime mortar surface, that create a fetishized and marble-like effect.

The term chromophobia (angst or fear of colour) refer to the interlocking of the European colonialism and the ideals emerging in 18th century Neoclassicism.

The neoclassical white ideal maintained a connection between the beautiful, the good and the true, and offered a spiritual justification of the atrocities of the European colonialism, where it was essential to perceive the white man and his art as sublime and superior.

The title Chromophobia fig. 1 indicates that the work can be perceived as a sculpture. A white sculpture that points towards it’s own whiteness and speaks to the classical sculpture, which has been whitewashed by the 18th century art historians.

 Chromophobia fig. 1 is a silent and retracted call for the awareness of the violence attached to the colour white.

Hvidme Archive presents their archive that features excerpts of artworks and texts in the fields of: art / culture / critical studies / intersectionality / racialization / mythology / colonial history / decolonialism / philosophy / fiction / queer theory / feminism.

Opening talk for the exhibition Unravelings

Opening of the first phase with Hvidme Archive and Annarosa Krøyer Holm. Talk with Annarosa Krøyer Holm and Miriam Haile from Hvidme Archive and a guest reading by writer Lesley-Ann Brown.