BEING 2010-2012
As a fool, you shall always fail. You shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure that you will succeed.
As an artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to use the guise of the fool, for that is a character unbound by any paradigm, and the fool's gaze is not influenced by preconceptions. A distinction must be made between the natural fool and the licensed fool. The natural fool is one who has no language, while the licensed fool walks between the borders of language and nonsense but never grows roots in either place.
Venø's starting point was heterosexual male identity, and with the series "BEING," he looked at two classic male heroic icons through the eyes of the fool, to investigate if it would reveal the male heroic ideal as a utopian dream and the figurative hero as a poster boy for their time. Thor Heyerdahl represents the Norwegian man, the underdog with a crazy idea that leads to success, and Audie Murphy embodies the American dream, a man who can make his fortune from nothing.
Link to images from the project:
https://www.bjornveno.com/being/
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BEING: Fatu Hiva
Filmed: 2010.
Location: the Royal College of Art, London
Content rating: Mature for profanity and nudity
As a fool you shall always fail, you shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure you will succeed.
As an Artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to use t...
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BEING: Pacific Ocean
Filmed: 2012.
Location: the Royal College of Art, London
Content rating: Mature for profanity and nudity
As a fool you shall always fail, you shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure you will succeed.
As an Artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to use t...
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BEING: Holtzwihr
Filmed: 2012.
Location: the Royal College of Art, London
Content rating: Mature for profanity and nudity
As a fool you shall always fail, you shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure you will succeed.
As an Artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to u...
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BEING: Texas
Filmed: 2012.
Location: the Royal College of Art, London
Content rating: Mature for profanity and nudity
As a fool you shall always fail, you shall either fail by staying a fool or by becoming a hero, but it is in failure you will succeed.
As an Artist, Bjørn Venø's approach has been to use t...
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BEING: Documentation RCA SHOW 2012
Royal College of Art graduation show 2012.
The Royal College of Art is the world's most influential postgraduate institution of art and design
RCA archive of the exhibit:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/16274/20240309173523/https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/bjrn-ven/ -
Xenia Cheex interviews Bjørn Venø at RCA SHOW 2012
Filmed: 2012.
Xenia Cheex has once more traveled over to the fabulous UK from Poland. This time to interview AMAZING! artists from the Royal College of Art degree show.
"My second interview this week was with the handsome and talented artist Bjørn Venø, defiantly one of my favourites." - Xeni...
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BEING: Audie Murphy - Live test
Filmed at Royal College of Art 13.12.2011
One of the first live performance actions by Bjørn Venø, it was a test for the video BEEING: Texas
Bjørn Venø tries to become Audie Murphy the most decorated war hero and celebrated movie star.
