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Gitte Villesen
05.29.98 - 06.14.98
Exhibition — Espace Clément Marlo
Gitte Villeson, Willy as DJ, 1995
Vidéo 5mn
courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhague
Born in 1965 in Ansager (Denmark), he lives in Copenhagen.
Gitte Villesen makes videos that are part fiction and part reportage about people around her. Willy Bøtker, an old man from his native village, is the voluble and cheerful protagonist of several of his films, in which he shares his vision of the world...
In Cahors, the artist presents his video Willy as DJ (1995) in which Willy listens enthusiastically to his favourite records.
With the support of the Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Copenhagen.