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Boy World Effigy II, a major new video and sound work by the artist duo Hart Lëshkina, transforms one of Denmark’s historic choirs, Herning Kirkes Drengekor, into both subject and metaphor, creating a multi-channel video and sound installation that probes the fragile thresholds between individuality and collective order. The work situates the choir as a symbolic institution—steeped in ritual, discipline, and harmony—while exposing the quiet violence of assimilation that underpins collective belonging.
The installation unfolds as a shifting constellation of performance sequences and uncanny constructed fragments drawn from the choirboys’ daily lives. Harmonized voices and synchronized gestures evoke the polish of tradition and cohesion, yet sudden ruptures—discordant tones, unruly movements, moments of defiance—fracture the surface. In these dissonances, the instability of identity and the ambiguity of personal agency within collective structures come into view....More
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Boy World Effigy II, a major new video and sound work by the artist duo Hart Lëshkina, transforms one of Denmark’s historic choirs, Herning Kirkes Drengekor, into both subject and metaphor, creating a multi-channel video and sound installation that probes the fragile thresholds between individuality and collective order. The work situates the choir as a symbolic institution—steeped in ritual, discipline, and harmony—while exposing the quiet violence of assimilation that underpins collective belonging.
The installation unfolds as a shifting constellation of performance sequences and uncanny constructed fragments drawn from the choirboys’ daily lives. Harmonized voices and synchronized gestures evoke the polish of tradition and cohesion, yet sudden ruptures—discordant tones, unruly movements, moments of defiance—fracture the surface. In these dissonances, the instability of identity and the ambiguity of personal agency within collective structures come into view....More
