{"id":4578,"date":"2011-03-11T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2016-10-09T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T10:28:00","slug":"heidi-lunabba-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/heidi-lunabba-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Lunabba: “Twins”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release by Heidi Lunabba, Finland<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Photo from the series Twins by Heidi Lunabba<\/em><\/p>\n

Heidi Lunabba: Twins<\/h2>\n

16.3 \u2013 22.5.2011 Finnish Museum of Photography, Process Space, Helsinki, Finland. Opening: March 15, 2011 at 5\u20137pm. The artist will be present. Welcome!
\n(…) Entry to the exhibition is free.<\/p>\n

Clothes make the man \u2013 but what about the child?<\/h2>\n

Visual artist Heidi Lunabba\u2019s series of pictures taken in workshops investigates how clothes and other visual emblems are used to accentuate and define a child\u2019s gender. Each child at a workshop has been photographed as both a girl and a boy, and the two pictures have been digitally merged into a single image to make \u201ctwins\u201d.<\/p>\n

The starting points for the work are fashion shots from the children\u2019s fashion magazine Vogue Bambini, which the exhibition\u2019s curator, Annamari V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, PhD, analyses in a non-fiction work to be published this spring Kuviteltu lapsuus. ‘N\u00e4k\u00f6kulmia lapsuuteen visualisoituneessa
\nkulutuskulttuurissa’<\/em> (Imagined childhood. Viewpoints on childhood in visualized consumer culture). The fashion photos accentuate the way that children are often dressed as little adults. When a child\u2019s gender is not yet clearly visible in its face and manner, it is \u201cannounced\u201d via clothing choices.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Photo from the series Twins by Heidi Lunabba<\/em><\/p>\n

In the workshops 3-12-year-old children were able to take on the roles of a girl and a boy with the aid of a professional make-up artist. Thus, in the pictures we also see their own conceptions of the differences in the presentation of the genders. The workshops were bilingual (Finnish and Swedish), and were held at the Finnish Museum of Photography in collaboration with the Blaue Frau theatre group.<\/p>\n

Meet the Artist and Curator on Wednesday 6.4.2011 at 17.30<\/code>
\nThe artist Heidi Lunabba [b.1977] and curator Annamari V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Fashion Studies, University of Stockholm, will talk about the exhibition. Free entry.<\/p>\n

Meet the Artist on Sunday 22.5.2011 at 14:00.<\/h2>\n

The artist Heidi Lunabba will talk about the exhibition. Free entry.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is accompanied by Finnish and Swedish language workshops for school children and adults.
\nFurther details: http:\/\/www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi\/<\/a>\u00a0
\nExhibition blog, where you [i.e. children] can send your own twin photo: inartproject.info > Do<\/p>\n

The exhibition will also be shown at Museum Anna Nordlander Skellefte\u00e5, Sweden in summer 2011.<\/code><\/p>\n

Further information:<\/h2>\n

Artist Heidi Lunabba +358503493029, heidi@lunabba.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Links<\/ch2>
\nhttp:\/\/www.heidilunabba.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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