H&M are showing the video ”Franco” at Høstutstillingen:
Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo,
September 6th thru October 5th
and Stavanger Kunstforening,
October 15th thru November 2nd.
Website: Høstutstillingen
The Norwegian video artist Hanne Rivrud brings a tender romanticism rarely encountered in her medium
(where the hyper-hip MTV mentality too often prevails) to bear in her piece "I Think I Feel a Little Hurt".
Shot when the artist was living in Berlin, directly opposite a construction site,
the video fixates poetically on different male workers going about their business,
while the artist narrates a wistful voice-over fantasizing romantic entanglements with them.
Against a musical backdrop, wistful schoolgirlish musings such as "I think he is in love with me" culminate in the denouement
"Time to make a choice; in fact, I already have…"
Ed McCormack, Gallery&Studio Magazine, New York, Vol. 9, No. 3
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