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We have chosen this Picture: "How to slip out of your body quietly" by Firelei Báez

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How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018. Courtesy Firelei Báez & James Cohan Gallery, NY

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How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018. Courtesy Firelei Báez & James Cohan Gallery, NY

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At around 17 minutes into the interview, Báez talks about the picture that we chose 

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Interview with Firelei Báez: "I Consider Myself a Filter"

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Interview with Firelei Báez: "I Consider Myself a Filter"

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The first solo exhibition in Europe of Dominican-American artist Firelei Báez (b. 1981). In her monumental paintings and installations, New York-based Báez creates images bursting with colours and symbols based on her own Caribbean culture, featuring folktales, colonial occupation, revolution and divided societies.

A key figure in painting today, Firelei Báez succeeds in drawing her viewers into enveloping, fictional worlds with poetic precision. Taking point of departure in how inherited stories shape and maintain culture and identity, Báez challenges powerful concepts like truth and history. Her approach to painting is thus intentionally destructive.

A new language of power

Firelei Báez usually paints on top of ancient colonial maps or construction plans for colonial architecture, both of which represent the establishment's notion of truthfulness and objectivity. The artist overwrites - or replaces - the traditional language of power with a new energetic force and vibrant, colourful expressions, mixing real-life events with sci-fi fables.

The exhibition, entitled 'Trust Memory over History', focuses mainly on works Báez has created over the past five years, including a large number of new works. It also features several of Báez's characteristic paper installations, in which she combines countless painted pages of books and maps to form a single work. These installations form the basis of her large paintings.

Meet Firelei Báez

In this new interview from Louisiana Channel, you are invited to join Firelei Báez in her studio, where she shares a closer look into her artworks and practice.

"I think if I just gave violence, it's very easy to just look away," she says. "That is our biggest power at the moment. Who do we give our attention to?" she asks and continues: "I'm fully capable of making a juicy, beautiful painting that is just all pleasure. And that's good. But that only sustains for a short period of time. I'm interested in giving something that is generous enough to make it linger in your mind afterwards."

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It is so beautiful, it is almost incomprehensible. These bodies are alive, I swear they almost twitched as I looked at them.

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Firelei Báez's colorful and thought-provoking stories from the Caribbean are an experience of the greats. Don't miss this exhibition. It is one of the very best offers of the season in the Danish museum world.

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The first solo exhibition in Europe of Dominican American artist Firelei Báez who creates images bursting with colours and symbols based on her own Caribbean culture.

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Our analysis and thoughts about the lessons can be found in this link:

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Our analysis and thoughts about the lessons can be found in this link:

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Why is it important to work with art, if we want to foster democratic citizens?

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Why is it important to work with art, if we want to foster democratic citizens?

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The engagement with art and culture can provide students with important competencies, both in terms of their personal development and their preparedness to participate as competent citizens in the democratic society (Kulturstyrelsen, 2013, p. 3). It can benefit students to work aesthetically, thereby strengthening their creative abilities, cultural knowledge, and cognitive competencies such as critical thinking, problem-solving and imagination.

Furthermore, art and culture also play a significant role in relation to identity. It is through art, culture, media, theaters, movies, and music that individuals construct their identities (Kulturstyrrelsen, 2013, p. 5). Culture and art provides students with experiences and impressions, not only for the present but also traversing historical epochs.