Henrik Olesen — SOME FAGGY GESTURES

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Since the mid-1990s, Henrik Olesen has used media such as collage, sculpture, and minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts not dissimilar to the method invented by Aby Warburg for his “Mnemosyne Atlas,” Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its criminalization in the past, as well as in the present. His archival work sheds light on the enduring existence of spaces for Others, and inscribes homosexual subculture once more into the history of art and culture

Description

JRP Ringier, 2008. 4to in wraps as issued. 176 pages. Text in English. Fine, unopened copy

Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Awarded in the competition “The most beautiful Swiss books 2008.”

Henrik Olesen — SOME FAGGY GESTURES