Invitation to the new exhibition of the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund/Germany Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press Pranayama Typhoon Soft Parts Wing Flap Fin Dear Spectre It is my great pleasure to invite you to the opening of HMKV’s new exhibition: On Friday, 16 September 2022, from 17:00 - 22:00, we would like to welcome you in the presence of the artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press at the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in the Dortmunder U in Dortmund, Germany. The exhibition title Pranayama Typhoon Soft Parts Wing Flap Fin combines the word "pranayama" - an ancient breathing technique - with the word "typhoon", an overwhelming and increasingly frequent natural phenomenon which is also the name of a state-of-the-art fighter plane. In this solo exhibition, British artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press (*1966) presents, among other works, the video Pranayama Organ (2021), which shows two full-scale inflatable military decoy aircraft: a Typhoon fighter jet and a Falcon. At dawn, both planes come to life, accompanied by the impressive sound of a church organ. Beanbags in the shape of life-size aircraft parts (Soft Parts: Wing, Flap, Fin, 2022) invite visitors to linger, while a fighter jet slowly fills with air and collapses back into itself. Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press lives and works in London, UK. Her work explores gender, language and publishing through a range of mediums, including drawing, sculpture, performance and the moving image. The struggle between language and its limitations is central to Banner’s work. Banner often works under the moniker of The Vanity Press. She established the imprint in 1997, with her seminal book The Nam. Since then, she has published many works, some in the form of books, some sculptural, some performance based. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN number and registered herself as a publication under her own name. We look forward to welcoming you! All the best, Inke --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Inke Arns Direktorin / Director HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein e.V. Büro / Office: Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund, Germany Ausstellungen / Exhibitions: Dortmunder U, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany <https://hmkv.de/ausstellungen/ausstellungen-detail/fionabanner-pranayamatyphoon.html> Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: Pranayama Typhoon Soft Parts Wing Flap Fin 17. September 2022 - 29. Januar 2023 www.hmkv.de <http://www.hmkv.de/> www.facebook.com/hartwaremedienkunstverein <http://www.facebook.com/hartwaremedienkunstverein> www.twitter.com/hmkv_de <http://www.twitter.com/hmkv_de> www.instagram.com/hmkv_de <http://www.instagram.com/hmkv_de>
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