My African Letters
Ditte Ejlerskov
Solo show from 12/08/2011 to 01/10/2011
Press release:
The exhibition, My African Letters, is based on an email that Ditte Ejlerskov received from a lawyer, Amadi Omorose Azagba, from Benin in Africa on April 9, 2011. Azagba writes that he for some time has been trying to get hold of Ditte Ejlerskov, since his client, Gabriel Ejlerskov, died a tragically death some years back and the lawyer must now pass on a part of his inheritage to an Ejlerskov relative.
This correspondence between the lawyer Azagba and Ditte Ejlerskov, the latter insisting in her emails on getting more details about the deceased Gabriel Ejlerskov, form the basis for the exhibition paintings. It will be possible to see the entire correspondence, which evolves into a dream scenario for both Ejlerskov and Azagba, in the gallery.
Ditte Ejlerskov was born in 1982 in Frederikshavn. She graduated from the Art Academy in Malmö in 2009. Ditte Ejlerskov also studied at the Funen Academy of Art and Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Ditte Ejlerskov has exhibited at Malmö Art Museum 2011, Ystad Art Museum, 2011, Uppsala Art Museum, 2009, just as we showed Ditte Ejlerskov’s works at Volta Basel the 13th-18th June this year. Ditte Ejlerskov has recently been selected as one of the three artists who will represent Denmark at the Carnegie Art Award 2011.
My African Letters is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts.
Read the email correspondence here
