Jesper JUST

Intercourses - Danish Pavilion

solo show

June 1 - November 24, 2013

venezia

Biennale di Venezia

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

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In 2013, Just premiered Intercourses, a multi-channel installation at the Danish Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in which Just complicated the idea of identity and nationality, using a Chinese replica city of Paris as the main character. Just explains, “I’ve worked in the past with the idea of architecture performing, with a building or structure as a main performer, a main protagonist. And here there was the possibility of working with a whole city. I was thinking about ways to make the city the protagonist or mediator between these characters, making them connect via the architecture. I wanted to explore how you could take something as superficial as this architecture and then turn it into something connecting humans.”

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

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View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin

View of the exhibition "Intercourses - Danish Pavilion" at La Biennale di Venezia (the 55th International Art Exhibition), Venice (Italy), 2013

Courtesy Perrotin