Flip Side
Kunsthalle Lissabon
27.5. - 2.7.2011
Opening 26.7. at 10 pm
Kunsthalle Lissabon is pleased to present Flip side, Pilvi Takala's first solo show in Portugal. Flip side will feature two recent works of the artist, The Messengers (2008) and the critically acclaimed Real Snow White (2009).
Through these two pieces, Flip side will look at the mechanisms that underly the construction of public personas, either a Disney-owned character that becomes too tangible, thus escaping the corporation control over collective subjectivities and associated profit, or a Croatian celebrity whose life and actions are defined and understood inasmuch as they are perceived and mediated through gossip magazines. In both cases, these figures are nothing more than fictional constructions, one becoming too real for fictional standards and the other appearing too fictional for reality standards.
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Rua Rosa Araújo 7-9
1250-194 Lisboa - Portugal
1250-194 Lisboa - Portugal