UMBRA HOMINIS (13.09 - 19.09.14)
Peo Olsson & Sany featuring Giacomo Porfiri
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Peo Olsson is an artist and photographer from Lund, SE. With Malmö as base he focuses his work on processes of change and the human condition. The archive or collection is often a point of departure for his "dig his own grave”-method.
Sany (alias Samuel Nyholm) is a an illustrator, artist and poet, also from Lund, but based in Stockholm. Since two years the village fool of Bremen, which is nowadays called illustration's professor.
Despite the fact that Peo and Samuel are close friends since adolescence and have collaborated in a vast number of projects, commissioned and free, 'Umbra Hominis' is their first manifestation as team, in the shape of this exhibition and the book with the same title.
The book includes introduction texts by dr. Arno Boehler and Mattias Winslow, designed by JONAS Williamsson and published by Null & Void in Malmö.
Giacomo Porfiri is a performance artist and musician from Genova, now based in the whole world, most of all in Berlin. Giacomo's contribution to the exhibition is a talking monkey dragon.
At the opening there will be a little bit of live music by Samuel and Giacomo and a 'dance' performance by Peo.
'A parable is the shadow of truth, where truth itself is a parable'