skēnē extends a warm welcome to its exhibition Diva Portal, which opens on the 25th of January and continues until the 24th of February. It includes new and existing work by Kah Bee Chow, Ingrid Furre, Joana Pereira and Julia Selin.

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The exhibition Diva Portal is loosely based on Aeschylus’ play The Suppliants, where the 50 Danaïde sisters form the chorus and serve as the protagonists

… on the reading thereof in Julia Kristeva’s Strangers to Ourselves, in which the Danaïdes represent the first foreigners

… on an unfinished script revolving around an internet café in Montparnasse called Sexopolis

… on a reworking of Albert Cossery’s novel Laziness in the Fertile Valley

… on what it means to enclose oneself or be enclosed

… on intimate infrastructures that support and sustain.

Kah Bee Chow works with forms of enclosures in relation to animals and the human body, with close attention to particularities of space and site, through sculpture, video and text. She lives and works in Malmö and Penang, Malaysia. Chow received her MFA in 2012 from Malmö Art Academy in Sweden and her BFA in 2004 from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Ingrid Furre lives and works in Malmö and Finnøy. Previous exhibitions include Konsthal44, Møn, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen. She has made a playsculpture for Revinge school in Lund and public sculptures for the city of Ystad. Furre has published several books on Flamme Forlag, Oslo, Forlaget Gestus, Copenhagen and Madame Cryptica, Stockholm.

Joana Pereira lives and works in Malmö. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, attended the Independent Study Programme Maumaus in Lisbon and holds a master’s degree in fine arts at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. In 2019 she was in residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She has exhibited at Malmö Konsthall, Adrogaria, Porto, Alta Art space, Malmö, Lund Konsthall and Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup.

Julia Selin studied at Umeå Art Academy, she lives and works in Malmö. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Porte, Leipzig, Tara Downs Gallery, NYC, Krognoshuset, Lund, Trollhättans konsthall, Galleri Cora Hillerbrand, Göteborg and Wanås Konst, Knislinge among other places. She is one of the organisers behind Alta Art Space.