LOGLINES | Eau Pernice & Mitko Mitkov at Danske Grafikeres Hus | September 2024 | Photo: Jenny Sundby

“A logline is like the cover of a book; a good one makes you want to open it, right now, to find out what’s inside. In identifying the ironic elements of your story and putting them into a logline, you may discover that you don’t have that. Well, if you don’t then there may not only be something wrong with your logline – maybe your story’s off, too. And maybe it’s time to go back and rethink it. Insisting on irony in your logline is a good place to find out what’s missing. Maybe you don’t have a good movie yet.”  

_{Blake Snyder, “Save the Cat! – The Last Book On Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need”}

On an afternoon with drifting clouds, a conversation about loglines between Eau Pernice and Mitko Mitkov is taking place on a bench under a tree in Kings Garden, right around the corner of the exhibition space. The dialogue spins around anecdotes and random observations from both artists’ everyday lives. Still, it seems difficult for them to formulate a logline for their upcoming exhibition at the Danske Grafikeres Hus. Instead, their sentences become loglines of their own that leave the realm of the conversation and start stretching, expanding over the garden and towards the outskirts of Copenhagen. Like snakes in the air. Soon, they will leave the city and move towards the sea, where they will emulsify with the wind.

LOGLINES is an exhibition of graphic works by Eau Pernice and Mitko Mitkov. The works in the exhibition are based on the dramaturgy of everyday life and the desire to secure the role of the protagonist in one’s own life story. Mitko Mitkov is a Hamburg-based visual artist and founder of the Bad Boy Jesus City Swimmers Club – a creative, landlocked swimming club that brings people together for artistic activities and many other reasons. Eau Pernice is a Danish visual artist who used to go by a different name. Her practice centers around questions of staging and construction of time and is expressed through time-based media, images, and objects. Both artists are interested in the multitudes of storytelling and the fine line between fiction and non-fiction.