centre d'artistes.artist run centre
February 2 - March 11, 2007
Opening: Friday February 2 at 7pm
Artist's talk: Sunday February 4 at 5pm
Exhibition hours : Wednesday to Sunday from 5pm to 9pm
Katja Høst's video and photographic work is concerned with questions about visual culture and identity as a flexible and context-dependent entity. Her subjects are closely related to an urban environment, providing the individual with the freedom of creating it's own identity, even multiple identities, highlighting different aspects of it's personality in different situations. This freedom of playing out social roles, more limited in rural contexts where identity is more transparent, comes at a price. The artist states that in the urban context, we live our lives observed by thousands of people, which become a vital part of how we perceive ourselves. In her exhibition The Lonely Crowd, the artist focuses on notions of surface and appearance in the public sphere, on the subtleties of individual expression and on the ambivalent experience of being both subject and object; of seeing and being seen at the same time.
The artist thanks the Office For Contemporary Art Norway and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa for their support.