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Anna Bak’s solo exhibition in Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon has the title “Bleak Harvest” and illustrates a fictional story about an agricultural community, about their tenacious work to optimize the profit of their crops, and their despair and remorse after the harvest has gone all wrong.
Although the focal point for the exhibition is fictitious, it draws strong references to realistic problematics, such as the negative consequences of genetically modified crops, an industrialized agricultural society and a world that since the 1970’erne yearly has had an over-consumption of natural resources compared to what our planet can re in a year.
The starting point for Anna Bak’s exhibition is based in inspiration from her own upbringing on a pig farm in Denmark in the start 90’s. The efficiency and industrialization of agriculture during the 90’s had big consequences; in 1985 there were 40.000 full-time farmers in Denmark, by 1996 this number was reduced to 28.000, and by 2024...More
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Anna Bak’s solo exhibition in Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon has the title “Bleak Harvest” and illustrates a fictional story about an agricultural community, about their tenacious work to optimize the profit of their crops, and their despair and remorse after the harvest has gone all wrong.
Although the focal point for the exhibition is fictitious, it draws strong references to realistic problematics, such as the negative consequences of genetically modified crops, an industrialized agricultural society and a world that since the 1970’erne yearly has had an over-consumption of natural resources compared to what our planet can re in a year.
The starting point for Anna Bak’s exhibition is based in inspiration from her own upbringing on a pig farm in Denmark in the start 90’s. The efficiency and industrialization of agriculture during the 90’s had big consequences; in 1985 there were 40.000 full-time farmers in Denmark, by 1996 this number was reduced to 28.000, and by 2024...More
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