17 Mar 2024 → 30 Nov 2024
Tuesday-Sunday: 11:00-18:00
Thursday: 11:00-20:00
Monday: closed
Opening/vernissage:
17 Mar 2024, 11:00-18:00
Cisternerne
Cisternerne, 2000 Frederiksberg
https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/da/cisternerne/
Admission:
Adults: 115 DKK, Student/under 27: 90 DKK, Under 18: free
IMAGE
Exhibition illustration.
TEXT
Cisternerne presents an extensive sound installation by artist Taryn Simon. Building everlasting recitations of loss, Start Again the Lament explores how we mourn individually and collectively, considering the anatomy of grief and who we choose to guide us through it.
In the act of lament, discontent is publicly performed. Professional mourners are granted the authority and solicited by the bereaved to occupy, negotiate, and shape their loss.
In a relentless replay, the lamentations of professional mourners are broadcast into the reverberating space of Cisternerne. These sonic rituals of grief include northern Albanian laments, which seek to excavate ‘uncried words’; Wayuu laments, which safeguard the soul’s passage to the Milky Way; Greek Epirotic laments, which bind the story of a life with its afterlife; and Yazidi laments, which trace a topography of displacement and exile. Cisternerne becomes an instrument echoing recitations of loss with a reverberation of 17 seconds.
As sound and visiting bodies move through repeating archways, the installation merges darkness and light, absence and presence, singular loss, and its exponential multiplication. The public is pulled through Cisternerne by lamentations sonically pushing against its walls in cacophony and silence.
Taryn Simon (b. 1975) is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, text, sculpture, and performance – often in combination. Through her artistic practice, Simon directs our gaze towards hidden or inaccessible systems, revealing underlying structures and how these influence our behavior.
Collaborating Artists:
Ana Luisa Montiel Fernández, Marisol Rosalía Montiel Fernández, Kalash Tossouni Boudoyan, Aziz Tamoyan, Lala Ismayilova, Haji Rahila Jafarova, Patimat Alibekova, Zakhra Maldaeva, Zamfira Ludovica Mureşan, Mrike Nokaj, Hu Xinglian, Chen Jian, Afua Acheampomaah, Hanna Koduah, Aníbal González, Nota Kaltsouni, Vangelis Kotsos, Nikos Menoudakis, Busara Azimbaeva, Toktokan Chancharova.