4 July 2008 – 7 September 2008

Judith Hopf - Nose up!

“Nose up!” is the title given by the artist Judith Hopf to her exhibition in the Badischer Kunstverein; it thereby marks an important point of reference for her new works. In Nose up! the artist focuses with various media and forms of expression upon the phenomenon of the history of lying. One symbol frequently used in literature for lying is the human nose, whose incessant growth in length—as in the case of Pinocchio—or sudden fall from the face—as in the story “The Nose” by Nicolai W. Gogol—is evaluated as a sign of dishonesty, instability or the loss of control. Just as already in earlier projects, in “Nose up!” Judith Hopf is concerned with an investigation of widespread social conventions. The media which she uses here are video, sculpture and graphic art. Her focus is directed towards both the possibilities and the actual development of an oppositional potential.

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Badischer Kunstverein
Waldstrasse 3
76133 Karlsruhe
phone +49 721 282 26
http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de

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