MOI Christian Falsnaes

Opening on Thursday, 09.19.24 at 7 PM - Free Admission

Join an artistic and collective performance with Christian Falsnaes

Who defines who we are as individuals and shapes our perception of ourselves and our place in the world? This is the central question of the MOI exhibition.

Christian Falsnaes, Danish artist born in 1980, renowned for his participatory performances, explores power dynamics and the transformation of the “I” into “WE.” In his new exhibition at Le Bicolore, Maison du Daneamrk, he invites the audience to participate in his main performative work.

Christian Falsnaes is an artist who both uses and questions his identity as an artist, as a man, as white, heterosexual, and as an individual facing the group, the community. What is the relationship between the individual and the group? How is the “I” shaped in the eyes of others, and what projections and constructs are at play?

In addition to the new MOI artwork, which will be created as part of the exhibition and filmed during the opening, the artist also plans to showcase a selection of graffiti from the WRITERS UNITED AGAINST THE GREY series. These drawings represent graffiti in Berlin. The graffiti artists each write their own name, making it a declaration of self (“I am here”), but at the same time, the mass of names/declarations blends into large-scale collective murals, where each name becomes a small part of a whole. This touches on one of my key concepts in the exhibition: the relationship between individual identity and group identity.

The exhibition is part of the I-LAB project, where Le Bicolore in Paris and the Randers Art Museum, based on contemporary international art, explore the concept of identity.