Hilden & Diaz
Hilden & Diaz are a Danish - Argentine artist duo who became known for their installations in public spaces. It works together, e.g. B. in its installations or design, as well as separately.
Artist
Thyra Hilden (* 1972 ) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2002 and has exhibited in her home country, in Costa Rica , France and China . In 2000 she published her photo series Dat synkrone together with Thomas Thøfner .
Pio Diaz is the initiator and producer of the New Exhibition Space Gothersgade in Copenhagen , in 2003 and 2004 he took part in the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Sharjah / Dubai , and also in the City Rumble of the Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art.
Joint activities
Hilden & Diaz became known in 2005 during a fellowship at the Det Dasnske Institut in Rome through their first joint video installation. They see the installation City on Fire , created by the duo in the following years , in which symbolically important cultural sites at the event locations were burned, as a symbol of the destructive power of civilization. Large video projections are projected onto monumental surfaces. The locations of the installation included the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum , the Frauenkirche in Copenhagen in 2007 , the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main and in 2010 the Colosseum in Rome .
In 2013, the couple showed the Forms lamp in Nature, in which the shadow play has different effects depending on the strength of the light. Hilden & Diaz hope to achieve series production through crowdfunding .