Light-Portraits of Bøvlingbjerg 2003

Galerie En Tangsøgade 4. Udstilling Bøvlingbjerg, Danemark — Slide projection, paper/veil, lumière, sound — Integated in exhibition space — Sound creation © Barah Héon-Morissette 2003

The Light/Portraits of Bøvlingbjerg created in a small Danish village of the same name, was an installation for En Tangsøgade 4 Udstilling Gallery. An ancestral building, a studio where hand-made horn objects were fabricated was located near the gallery. The creation of the Light/Portraits of Bøvlingbjerg was using this historical resource important to the inhabitants of the village. (As the in situ work entails a specific location, the combination of bodies and horns imposes itself). These luminous figures shifted between mythical beings and the bestial nature of the body. The light-portraits were accompanied by the projection of a local tree, a symbol of the village’s natural surroundings. Through his/her imagination, the spectator is brought from this environment with light projections in movement into a mythical space while remaining conscious of his/her own presence in the installation.