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The video installation Modern Escape questioning the relation between the individual position and a global political context. We are preoccupied to examine our social behaviors and subjective relationship with both general historical issues and the different cultures we are part of. Time has blurred reality, art, living, exciting into a melting pot, where our POV has changed. The automated camera gaze takes over the photographer's empathetic gaze and starts all the way from the floor and ends in something that refers to a drone gaze. The world is migrating, walls are shooting up in the same speed as refugee camps and now infections are spreading. The art room is transformed into a living room, where a TV includes reality by showing excerpts from TV news. At the same time, television commercials offer surveillance equipment and anti-theft devices to keep the world out: The living room turns into a safe guarded castle. However, the reality insist to penetrate.

Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen have a MFA from the Art Academy of Jutland.. They have worked and exhibited together with video, documentary and installations since 1993. Latest can be mentioned their solo exhibition is AT THE FENCE af Kunsthal Viborg 2019, PROTECT/ RELEASE at Röda Sten Konsthall 2017, REVISIT a monographic exhibition at Overgaden 2018-19 as well as INCLUSION / EXLUSION at ARoS art Museum 2017. They have received Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s Honorary Award in 2016, the Eckersberg Medal from the Royal Academy of Fine Art 2017 and latest The New Carlsberg Foundation`s Artist Grant in 2020.