Party for Freedom solo show at Overgaden, Copenhagen, 6 September-27 October 2013

For her first solo exhibition in Denmark, Ashery presents the installation Party for Freedom, a moving-image audiovisual album of 10 tracks. Traversing the territories of Western leftist sentiments emergent in 1960s and 70s’ experimental and avant-garde productions, and current rightwing and far-right populist claims positing Islam and immigration as a threat to imagined nationhood, the work questions at once unconscious and politically motivated trajectories and currencies associated with Western freedom. Exploring performances of liberation, trash aesthetics and political nakedness, Party for Freedom responds to meshed Orientalist depictions in current mediascapes, and to the eccentric series of events characterizing the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn in 2002 and Theo van Gogh in 2004, and the ensuing popularity of the far-right Partij voor de Vrijheid.

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