The exhibition space is placed at a s-train station. A place where a travel can begin.
The exhibition is dealing with the borders between actual places and imaginary worlds. How do we represent wuch places and why? The exhibited works are created in a different country from where the artists usually live. Ditte Ejlerskov's painting series was originally created at a residency in Mallorca, Anne Skole Overgaard did several of her works in Italy and Paolo Cavinato has made his installation during a residency in Copenhagen.
Ditte Ejlerskov exhibits "The Travel Magazine Series" at the station in 15 poster-stands, which were originally used for advertisements. Ejlerskov is interested in the connection between the ancient myth of the Garden of Eden and the palm tree as a symbol for Paradise. In the work at Sydhavn station she looks at how this myth is retold in today's media. The poster piece reflects on how we concretely recreate Paradise as a place to visit for leisure and holiday,
Anne Skole Overgaard shows a series of watercolours depicting motifs from Italy and from Sydhavn. The Danish painters of the Golden Age showed Italy as the cradle of Antiquity, with Nature, Culture and Man in harmony. Overgaard has depicted the views from a studio in Italy which was facing a factory and a parking lot. She has been painting directly in front of the motifs, a working method with links to the sketches of the Danish Golde Age painters and the impressionists painting "en plein air". Back in Copenhagen she has painted the view from her own studio which is placed at the Sydhavn station, next to the exhibition space.
Paolo Cavinato created a site-specific installation consiting of a big box, left in a dark room. The box contains an infinite, dream-like passage and suggests the possibility of being dissolved or to dissappear. This can both be experienced as liberating or disturbing. A travel can have the same ambiguous potential: You can be a now person - or be lost.
