Home works is the title of the internationally renowned artist Joakim Eskildsen’s years long and comprehensive project, which he began in 2005 and is still currently working on today. The exhibition Joakim Eskildsen: Home Works is the first major presentation of Home Works in Denmark and internationally.
Eskildsen works in the crossfield between art and documentary with a unique sense for light, color and composition, which often evokes a picturesque mood in his work, and which has made his artistic practice known internationally. He has often depicted people and their living conditions which he has come to know through longer stays and travels to Cuba, USA and a large number of countries in Europe. For seven years, Eskildsen and author Cia Rinne traveled around the world and portrayed the living conditions and culture of the Roma, which became the extensive work The Roma Journeys (2000-2006), that intimately and poetically depicts the largest minority in Europe.
After Eskildsen had children, he turned the camera lens towards his own life with the project Home Works where he has portrayed the family’s different homes, his children’s upbringing as well as the changing seasons and the passage of time. Home works touches on and explores in a sensory way, general and universal questions about home, the human existence and the beauty and transience of life. The exhibition will unfold Home Works chronologically through different chapters based on the family’s different homes and will touch upon themes and excerpts in the extensive work such as seasons and childhood. Through this, the exhibition will illuminate the character of the multifaceted project and the special temporality which is connected to the evolving of life and the human being as well as the cycle of nature.
3 jun – 13 aug 2023
Mon closed
Thu 1 June closed
Tue-Fri 12-18
Thu 12-20
Sat-Sun 12-16
Entrance: 40 DKK
Students, people under 18 years, groups & seniors: 20 DKK
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Fotografisk Center
Staldgade 16
1699 København V
Accessibility:
Level-free access – yes
Handicap toilet – yes
Free for companion – yes