Our first exhibition will present the Danish artist Lotte Nielsen and her work YAOI. The work comprises a film and a book about an old abandoned movie theatre in the Danish town of Stenløse. Movies are no longer screened in the building, which has taken on new meaning through its use by young people from the LGBTQ-community, who’s illegally entering the premises for hang out, music events etc.
Lotte Nielsen grew up in Stenløse, and through the use of poetic images and texts in the book she examines the movie theatre as a metaphor for her own experiences of the place and her father’s escalating dementia. She lingers on the moods of the interiors and façades, which have gradually changed in the same way that her father’s dementia has gradually erased his memory.
"Lotte Nielsen's work is conceptually very sophisticated. Its two parts: the film and the book, draw the audience in different narrative directions and open spaces where new and diverse meanings can be created. Her handling of difficult subjects like dementia and L.G.B.T.Q is both proficient and sensitive”
Sean Kissane, curator at The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
