MAJ-BRITT BOA

Hares at Night

November 16 - November 30, 2022

See full list of works here

On Thursday 24 November at 17-18 there will be a reading by Silja E.K. Henderson from the book "Zonen / The Zone", there will be music by Ulyd, and there will be a reading by Maj-Britt Boa from the book "Harer ved Nat". The event will be in Danish.

We offer coffee and wine and the event is free and open to everyone.

On the occasion of visual artist Maj-Britt Boa's book publication "Harer ved nat / Hares at Night", SPECTA presents an exhibition of the same name. With works in different media such as photography, photogravure and woodcuts, Maj-Britt Boa has created an expansion or (visual) evocation of her first book “Harer ved nat // Hares at Night”, which will be published by publishing house Gladiator parallel to the exhibition. The text and artworks go hand in hand and merge together, blurring the line between imagery and text.

In the book "Harer ved nat / Hares at Night" Maj-Britt Boa describes a number of situations with great intimacy. Up close and personal recordings from various places and events. Descriptions where the texts processes imagery and seamlessly flows with the works she mentions in the situations. In this way, text and image are merged, so that you recognize the image in the text and the words in the image. At the same time, we are given access to the many layers of work and considerations which are present in the creation of her images.

The photography is a starting point both in the texts and in a number of the works. This applies in both classic photographic works and in photogravures, where photos are transferred to printing plates and printed from there.

The motifs are found on journeys or places where the gaze at what is unknown or different is also a look at being a stranger yourself. It is the Ross Fountain, the great fountain in Edinburgh, stuffed animals on a dim ceiling with the midnight sun of the North Cape outside, the hares caught in the light one night at the island of Hven, and the glass ball pressed into a tombstone that turns the cemetery upside down in Berlin. In addi-tion, in large spiral woodcuts and drawings, the motif gives a pictorial expression of getting temporarily lost.

Common to the works is a poetic unrest. Getting lost in the unknown is a way of interacting with the surroundings, and perhaps also offering the viewer to be led around and around until a state of surrender arises.
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At the opening on Friday 18 November (5-8pm). Maj-Britt Boa will give a reading from her new book at around 6 pm

On Thursday 24 November at 17-8 there will be a reading by Silja E.K. Henderson, who has published the book "Zonen / The Zone", there will be music by Ulyd, and there will be a reading by Maj-Britt Boa from the book "Harer ved Nat". The events will be in Danish.

We offer drinks and the events are free and open to everyone.
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Maj-Britt Boa (DK/1963) lives and works in Copenhagen and works in photography, printing, installation and writing. She has done a large number of exhibitions at e.g. SPECTA, Horsens Museum of Art, Esbjerg Museum of Art, Randers Museum of Art and internationally in e.g. Hamburg, Vestfossen and London. Maj-Britt Boa is represented in the collections at Horsens Museum of Art, the Danish Arts Agency, the National Photo Museum, Randers Museum of Art and the Vestfossen Art Laboratory, Norway. In November 2022, Maj-Britt Boa's first book “Harer ved nat” will be published by the publishing house Forlaget Gladiator.