Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen I Landscape Is a Verb (Imported)

Brigade is pleased to announce the opening of "Landscape is a Verb (Imported)" by Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen.

The exhibition centers around the use and consumption of naturalistic imagery and the exchange of beauty, featuring works that originate from Lydért (b. 1994, Denmark) and Nystrup-Larsen ́s (b. 1992, Denmark) residency in Havana, Cuba, earlier this year. As a choir, the paintings form a bouquet of distorted flowers, motifs accumulated from manipulations of Cuban stamps. By copying, imitating and conserving The Landscape, the works pose as souvenirs for the future, paying an homage to nature, the ultimate beauty ideal. One that is meant simultaneously to please and spark discomfort.

Extending from Lydért and Nystrup-Larsen's working concept 'Import/export', the works are imported from their original context in Cuba to the Copenhagen gallery. Here, they pose alongside placeholders, proxies, of other works, shown alongside the paintings in the Cuban install, the exhibition making visible what can be transferred and what is lost.