Jane Jin Kaisen

November is an audiovisual meditation on endings and end times, the cerulean sky, the night. A dual-channel video installation, one screen shows an image of a pregnant moon traversing a cloudy sky, while the other offers evocative images of the natural world in metamorphosis: autumn leaves in the wind, a frozen tree branch, a swan, rippling water, a northern night. Lingering on the liminal and transitory, time is configured as anything but ordinary and static. Subtle alterations of temporal flows underscore time's elasticity, and endings become inevitably tied to transformative and regenerative states.

November features a commissioned poetic response by poet Mara Lee that alludes to the oracular and the myth of Leda and the Swan. Lee's voice is integrated into a melodic score by musician Lior Suliman. Like the visuals, the soundscape carries an enchanted allure and invites a consideration of the elusive phenomena of time and its profound connection to lived experience and our perception of the living world.

Spanning video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance and text, Jane Jin Kaisen's art practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research, creative collaborations and engagement with diverse communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. A recurring focus revolves around nature and island spaces, cosmologies, re-framings of myths and engagement with ritual and spiritual practices.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.