Post Trauma Documents exhibition
2016
17.9 – 6.11 2016
The exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday, September 17 at 2 pm by Johan von Schreeb, physician and specialist in surgery and global emergency medicine at Karolinska Institute. Johan von Schreeb was named Swedish of the year in 2014. Denmark’s ambassador to Sweden, Ove Ullerup, attends the opening.
The exhibition Post Trauma Documents is Peter Brandt’s first mid – career survey exhibition and contains works form 2000 – 16, focusing on Peter Brandt’s work on negotiations between trauma and gender. The exhibition takes its point of departure in a personal event. During a residency at the Danish Institute in Rome in 2002, Peter Brandt was assaulted by an unknown perpetrator and got a a brain injury. Being subjected to violence, the trauma and it’s aftermath has found it’s way in several of the artist works and has made Brandt questions the role of men in society and says: – “In my art I am keen to explore masculinity in a historical, social and cultural perspective – with a special focus on gender and traumatic experience”.
Brandt’s artistic practise stems from the 1970s feminist art movement and his works is in dialogue with feminist artist like Hannah Wilke. The exhibition shows textile and text-based works, objects, photography and video works. In conjunction with the exhibition is produced a comprehensive monograph on Peter Brandt.