Chinese Whispers, The Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark

Mia Lerssi’s contribution to CHINESE WHISPERS, 2019.

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CHINESE WHISPERS

The Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark 12.10.2019-22.03.2020

Inspired by the childhood game of the same name, Chinese Whispers is a project initiated by British artist Erin Dickson, which explores issues on national identity across borders and continents involving 15 international artists working with glass.

For centuries, glassmakers have worked in glass factories or have been in glass production far from their homes, and taken their knowledge and their craft from one region to another or from country to country. Thus, glass art and the glass society are characteristically transnational. With the transformation of a classic Venetian vessel, Erin Dickson illustrates this exchange between glassmakers across the globe. At the same time, she comments on the global challenges of our time by exposing the misinterpretations, which undeniably result from differences in language and culture.

The exhibition is part of the project ‘From Where We Stand’ – a collaboration between seven Danish art museums on national identity.

Artists represented in the exhibition: Silvano Signoretto (Italy), James Devereux (Great Britain), Hyunsung Cho (Chorea), Sibusiso Mhlanga (Swaziland), Einar & Jamex de la Torre (Mexico), Rasmus Nossbring (Sweden), Zuheir Alkazzaz (Syria/The Netherlands), Mia Lerssi (Denmark), Jing Li (China), Nadège Desgenétez (France/Australia), Petr & Ondrej Novotny (Czech Republic), Kelly O’Dell (USA), Christina Hellevik & Leif Møller Nielsen (Denmark), Bevan Taka (Maori/Sweden), James Maskrey (Great Britain).

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Silvano Signoretto

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Einar and James de la Torre

Photographer of the art work for Glass Museum Ebeltoft: Finn Manford

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Erin Dickson in conversation with Jeffrey Sarmiento, Kristina Hellevik, Tchai Munck og Leif Møller Nielsen at the opening night at Glass Museum Ebeltoft.

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