Evalajka Pervin invites you into the artistic practice rooted in childhood on Vesterbro, from where the artist gazes out and is looked back at in return.
Evalajka invites you with a Live Performance where childhood mosaics and the cultural packed lunch are spread, wrapped, and shared in a ritualistic form that knows no borders displaying the cultural and religious ones. In the video work, we hear the inciting rhythm of music, a Bollywood melody rooted in the Sunday soundtrack played softly in the elegant living room of the childhood home. These mosaics and patterns are pieced together in an attempt to find a rhythm and movement that are both foreign and familiar at once.
The exhibition grapples with cultural norms, where the Danish heritage is a solid base for the artist's existence. Mirroring the reflection, the question of the exotic touch that comes from the paternal origin, the Pakistani heritage from the city of Lahore, and the cultural luggage with Islam as topping.
Evalajka says: If I'm not the GoGo dancer tickling the imagination with images of an exotic mango among the salty bacon at the grocery store, am I allowed to be?
With video art as a tool, the artist attempt to display herself as the courtesan in the iconic Bollywood soundtrack, a song that resonates through generations, an inheritance shaped and formed by the tide of time, different interpretations, different starting points of female possibilities and lives; the rhythm and song leave a dusty taste of stolen identities that change with the tune of times.
A cautious look behind the veil seeks the viewer and the music fades the figure.
A cautious look behind the veil seeks the viewer and the music fades the figure.
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FOYERcontemporary
FOYERcontemporary