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Kiba Lumberg in Venice
Venice, October 2007 -- Co-organized by FRAME-Finish Fund for Art Exchange
and the Scandinavian Association of Venice, on Monday, October 1, Kiba Lumberg, artist in residence at The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presented in the Scuola dei
Calegheri, Campo San Tomà in Venice her following video works:
Five Helsinki Citizens (1997)
Gypsy Images (1996)
Gräi Horse (1990)
TV series and theatre play
Tumma ja Hehkuva Veri (1993/2004)
Kiba also talked about her novels Musta
Perhonen (2003) and Repaleiset Siivet (2006).
Additional
info: Henna Harri, FRAME, 040 519 1906, henna.harri(at)frame-fund.fi
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About Kiba Lumberg
Kiba Lumberg is a Helsinki-based artist, scriptwriter and
author. In her interdisciplinary works Lumberg reflects on her Roma origins.
Roma heritage and the traces, memories, experiences and traumas that it brings
with it define her work and prompt discussion about the myths and everyday life
of this culture. She criticizes the low status of Roma women and children
dictated by the ancient traditions of their community, and speaks out for human
rights.
In addition to a number of exhibitions in Finland,
Lumberg’s works have been shown in Copenhagen, Stockholm and St. Petersburg.
She is currently participating in the Paradise Lost exhibition in the First Roma Pavilion. She studied at the
University of Art and Design Helsinki, and has worked on various projects for
Finnish museums, and lectured on issues affecting cultural minorities and on
art’s potential for improving their status in societies around the world.
Lumberg's first novel Musta Perhonen (Black Butterfly) was published in 2003, and the story
was continued in Repaleiset
Siivet (Torn
Wings) in 2006. She is currently working on a third novel, Samettiyö (Velvet Night), due to be
published in 2008. She has also written the script for a TV series and theatre
play Tumma ja
Hehkuva Veri (Dark and Burning Blood). Her novels and scripts are unique accounts of the
Roma community from the perspective of a Finnish Roma woman.
She fled her community when she was only 13 years old and
has been fighting for her freedom ever since. Her work has created considerable
tension within the Roma community, but has also initiated the much-needed
discussion about the status of the Roma in Finnish society. Unfortunately, time
has not yet changed the attitudes or demands of either the minority or the
majority communities.
Kiba Lumberg is currently an artist-in-residence for the
Open Society Institute and FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange at the Roma
Pavilion, Palazzo Pisani S. Marina.
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