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Sophie Ernst awarded Golden Cube at Kassel Dokfest for HOME |
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10th November 2009 to 15th November 2009 |
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Green Cardamom are delighted to announce that Sophie Ernst has won The Golden Cube award for best installation, the Monitoring exhibition at The Kassel Documentary and Video Festival 2009. The Jury for this year’s award included Alain Bieber, Wolfgang Jung, Eva Scharrer, Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Theus Zwakhals. In speaking about Ernst’s work the judges said: ‘The jury opted for an installation that offers a multi-layered interpretation, dealing with themes related to memories, personal stories and current political and social phenomena. The work HOME by Sophie Ernst prevailed with its contrasting and at the same time subtle use of personal accounts, individual stories and oral recollections in relation to architecture, and the ambiguous meaning the term Home entails’. Other artists in the running for the award included Marina Abramovic, Candice Breitz and Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak.
Ernst’s HOME installation explores ideas of place, memory and dislocation, looking at how remembered images from the past and notions of the ideal inform views of the present. Ernst films individuals relating their memories and histories of migration, projecting these onto architectural drawings and models that evoke the homes they have left behind. The 26th Kassel Dokfest took place in Kassel between November 10 and 15, 2009 and the award of 2,500 Euro, is donated by the Kassel-based Micromata GmbH.
HOME has been supported by Green Cardamom and the Sharjah Biennial.
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Installation view of HOME at the 26th Kassel Dokfest
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