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New paintings and performative photographs by Dorte Jelstrup at Galeri Lars Olsen

COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition “There must be an angel playing with my heart” presents a series of new paintings and performative photographs that thematizes subjective mental states of longing, desire, dream and remembrance. The paintings and photographs establish a link to the art historical modernism, primarily early avant-garde movements of the twentieth century such as Constructivism and Surrealism in a critical reflection upon the marginalization of modernism of a personal based world of experience and a feminine artist subject. The paintings come in two parts: The first part consists of a series of works that are frontally and symmetrically composed and made up of wide black satin ribbons generating drawings that symbolically connote openings. Some of the fields delineated by the satin ribbons on these paintings are painted in a variety of magenta, purple, violetblue, gray and grayblack colors. Other fields remain unpainted so that ungrounded ground of linen is