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Jeuno JE KIM Born 1975 in South Korea

Ewa EINHORN Born 1977 Klodzko, Poland

Live in Malmö, Sweden

Jeuno JE KIM & Ewa EINHORN, Krabstadt Buttons, 2020, Computer game, durations variable

Jeuno JE KIM is a visual artist and writer working with animation, sound, performance, video and text, and Ewa EINHORN is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary film. They have been working together since 2009 on topics related to the construction of Norden, and more specifically the relations between political rhetoric, assumptions of national territory, and nations as brands. Their joint feminist animation project Krabstadt is a series of short films featuring simply drawn characters, black humor, and a smattering of rude language, that satirize current topics such as immigration, integration, unemployment, and sex, whilst shedding light on some of the political and historical contexts that remain obscured by the squeaky clean image of Northern Europe.

KIM and EINHORN employ the allegorical language of animated films to delve into and ask pointed questions about issues such as Northern European societies’ contradictory attitudes toward (im)migrants, the inadequate and often harsh conditions and environments that are granted to immigrants even as they are deployed into the labor market, and the selfish, hypocritical core at the basis of these countries’ civil societies. Further, their work sheds light on the many forms of (in)visible power that regulate and manipulate our identities today on the national and social levels, and encourages us to see the historical, cultural, political contexts that undergird the present with clearer, more critical eyes.