CPH: JUNCTIONS & CHECKPOINTS, 2021 AMAGER CENTER The visual artist Michelle Eistrup draws on postcolonial references when she explores contemporary cultural nodes in the public space in the video work CPH: Junctions & Checkpoints (2021). Through a kaleidoscopic view of these places and spaces, Eistrup creates an artistic and critical commentary on the boundaries and non-boundaries that prevail between colonial architecture, contemporary movement patterns, and cultural nodes.
CPH: Junctions & Checkpoints (2021) is in itself a hub that is in constant motion. Here, historical sites and contemporary narratives and events are relentlessly intertwined through experimental imagery of rotating mosaics. Places and spaces formerly reserved for the elite are now occupied and used by people from other economic and cultural divides. These places appear at the same time as both recognizable and foreign, and it is, among other things, this duality that Eistrup works actively with. The transformative qualities of the video work appear in an almost hypnotic way through the constant movements, which at the same time function as a reflection of the cultural nodes that intertwine our past with our present.
The work continues methods that Eistrup developed for the Metropolis project Wal (k) ing Copenhagen 2020.
