TRAVEL DIARY

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

3:54 PM
Posted by jodi rose

You are cordially invited to come to the FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT gallery in Kreuzberg on this coming Wednesday.

The following works will be shown:

Jacob Kirkegaard: "HOTEL CHERNOBYL"
12 photos of 40 x 30 cm (2006)
'Hotel Chernobyl' offers a photographic view into the one and only hotel existing inside the Zone of Exclusion in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Sarah & Jacob Kirkegaard: "CHERNOBYL ALL INCLUSIVE"

In October 2005, Sarah and Jacob Kirkegaard explored the touristic potential of the so-called Zone of Exclusion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. After more than 20 years of abandonment, the area has become Europe's greatest nature reserve. However, it still holds the uncanny charm of a nuclear no-man's land where everything but memory has long been eradicated.

"Chernobyl all inclusive" is a remix of footage recorded during this visit. It presents two parallel reports of the same journey: one in sound, the other in image, both taken from the same rough DV recordings. While the video stills and cross-fades focus on the claustrophobic interior of „Hotel Chernobyl" - an improvised housing container provided for the rare guests to the Zone - , the vivid sound narrative evokes a whole range of experiences and associations from the trip: from endless car drives and checkpoint dialogues to the rustling of trees overgrowing the deserted settlements.

We hope to see you there
Feel free to bring friends.

Details:
The exhibition will only be up on this evening
Wednesday the 13th of August between 18:00 - 22:00 uhr
Address: Schönleinstrasse 28, 10967 Berlin Kreuzberg


Jacob Kirkegaard - http://fonik.dk
Photo preview - http://fonik.dk/works/hotel.html