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Utställningen Heijastuksia / Reflections (Reflektioner) på Galleria Huuto är en översikt av mina senaste verk i carborundum och torrnål. Verken ingår i en serie med samma namn som utställningen. De första arbetena i serien gjorde jag för en platsbunden grafikinstallation i december 2005. Den huvudsakliga inspirationskällan för mina arbeten är stadslandskapet. Jag vill visa upp delar av stadsbilden ur en ny synvinkel, sådana platser som folk dagligen passerar utan att lägga märke till dem ...

Mina arbeten utgår ifrån spegelbilder av det faktiska landskapet. Alla element finns med i bilden, men spegelbildseffekten kan verka förvirrande också då platsen i sig är igenkännlig. Spegelvändningen ger platserna ett magiskt och abstrakt uttryck. Effekten är också starkt förknippad med trycktekniken, eftersom grafiker måste göra tryckplattan spegelvänd för att den tryckta bilden i sin tur ska motsvara verkligheten.


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Swiss-Haitian artist Sasha Huber (*1975), member of the Transatlantic Committee “De-mounting Louis Agassiz”, has, as part of her exhibition, made an intervention by bringing a metal plaque including a graphic representation of the slave Renty to the top of the Alpine peak Agassizhorn (3946 metres above sea level), situated on the border between the cantons of Berne and Valais, and by so doing, to take a first step towards a renaming of that mountain.

With this act, the fact is to be commemorated that Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was an influential racist and a pioneering thinker of apartheid and that therefore the Agassizhorn ought to be renamed “Rentyhorn” in honour of the Congolese-born slave of whom Agassiz ordered a photo to be taken on a South Carolina plantation, in order “to prove the inferiority of the black race” and persons with similar destinies as Renty.

After the completion of the artistic act, Sasha Huber and the Transatlantic Committee “De-Mounting  Louis Agassiz” submitted a request for the plaque to be fixed to the rocks of the summit permanently and for the mountain to be renamed, to those boards forming the judicial context of the Agassizhorn: the authorities of the communes of Grindelwald, Guttannen und Fieschertal, the authorities of the cantons of Berne and Valais as well as the executive board and the advisory committee of the public trust responsible for UNESCO’s world natural heritage area “Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn”. Among the addressees for the request can be found Benedikt Weibel, former CEO of Swiss Federal Railway, Adolf Ogi, former member of the Swiss government, Heiner Geissler, former German minister and MP, ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger, and no less than former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The answers to the request submitted will prove whether in the case of the Agassizhorn, the Ghanaian Kofi Annan and the other eminent personons can afford to slight those goals of anti-racism and commemoration of slavery so dear to UNESCO.

Eventually, with www.rentyhorn.ch an international petition to, among others, the Swiss government and two chambers of parliament has gone on-line recently. It is designed to inform (in German, English, French and Italian) about the campaign and to collect signatories who support the re-naming. Already men and women from all over the world have entered their names.