WHO’S NEXT?
- a photographic installation by Charlotte Haslund-Christensen ‘in the closet” but out on the street at Galleri Signe Vad
Nansensgade 47
1366 Copenhagen K
Opening Friday July 24th, 5-7pm
Open 24 hours a day.
www.gallerisignevad.dk
www.charlottehaslund.com
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen has photographed over 40 homosexuals in the cellar prison of Copenhagen’s main police station. The exhibition is inspired by Pastor Martin Niemöller’s poem on political apathy in the face of Nazism, and asks ‘Who’s Next?’
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Social Democrat.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen’s installation WHO’S NEXT? is a work in progress and consists of mugshots of homosexuals photographed from the front and in profile as if they were criminals.
Inspired by the human rights focus of World Outgames 2009, the artist has chosen to comment on the fact that 79 countries in the world still criminalise homosexuality – and that homosexuality was not removed from the official Danish register of psychological diagnoses until 1980.