The GL/DK project
Lars Dyrendom
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Today Greenland is a part of The Danish Kingdom after having lifted their colonial status in 1953. They are in many ways not completely detached from the Danish influence and the perspective on their country and its indigens people hasn’t developed into an equal relationship. In 2020 a third of Greenland’s population live and work in Denmark as a marginalized group existing under the weight of the colonial gaze.
I work with an archive based in Denmark, collected by the Danish. In this project I work from my own perspective as a Dane, who has never visited Greenland. My upbringing was influenced by the Danish view of Greenland, throughout school, children’s television, public debates and the use of the Eskimo figure in ice cream vendors in the summer. In this work I question my own view as well as the national gaze towards Greenland and Greenlanders.
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Lars Dyrendom's artistic practice evolves around photographic archives and collections. A returning theme is how humans as groups behave and act in relation to our surrounding and environment. How we stage and interact with different spaces as well as objects and how we give them emotional, political and ideological meanings in and through photography.
The photographs in an archive or collection often have no beginning or end, but they exist in layers. When moving in-between these layers, norms and structures emerge but also veins of emotion and sudden affects. These aspects co-play and turn “seeing” and ideas of how to see into a complex framework.
"I work project-oriented, and I often use somewhat divergent visual expressions in my work. The common thread is the type of material that usually work with and how I approach it."