Installation view, Efterårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, København,
DK, 2000
Åben Billedcentral was a collection of 2700 photographs with contributions
from 210 photographers. We invited people with different professions and background
for doing photography to contribute. In the invitation we asked people to
send us images they would like to give away to somebody else. Some we also
asked to pass the invitation on through their personal and professional network,
and in this way the invitation spread far, crossing borders of professions,
geography and personal networks.
We collected the photographs over 3 months and mounted them on bricks of wood
with the purpose of distributing them to the audience at the Fall Exhibition
in Copenhagen. On each block the name of the photographer was stamped on the
back. In the exhibition-space they were stacked along the walls, and a text
told the audience that they could chose an image and take it with them home.
During the 3 weeks of the exhibition, the installation became smaller and
smaller until it was all gone and 2700 images had been taken away by new owners.
Åben Billedcentral was a temporary collection of photographs of different
characters and origin, which during the exhibition became the private objects
of new owners.