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Leviathan
2010
texts and pictures

with Lise Haurum Christensen

exhibited at Is there any Hope for Optimistic Art? within the Qui Vive? Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2010, Moscow Museum of Modern Art/NCCA, with support by Iaspis – The Swedish Arts Grants Committeé’s International Programme for Visual Artists

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Sailors, being at the mercy of the wind and the sea and the elements, and the very capriciousness of Mother Nature, used to be a very superstitious lot. They built up an extraordinarily elaborate set of tattoo symbols that spoke a language all their own; the tattoo-covered body of a sailor, was primarily a linguistic object. The nautical tattoos told the story of where a sailor had traveled, if he had been around Cape Horn or crossed the Equator, if he had visited the Orient. Many of the tattoos were also amulets and talismans of protection to keep from falling overboard, drowning or being eaten by a shark. The sailors put their hope in the pictures.

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