Cannibal Farm – From the inner lives of common creatures great and small.

the Bookshop – Project space, April 18, 2011

“The painting developed without any clear plan or goal. First I painted a pig which lives 200 meters from my residence in Seydisfjordur – from there one thing took to another and this is the result. I want to leave it as open as possible and I hope it will be experienced as productive of meaning rather than being perceived as expressive of any pre-given “message”. However that may be, the painting does contain some references to factory farming.”

Tom Backe Rasmussen
Artist in residence at the Hóll residency during March – May 2011.

Tom Backe Rasmussen is born in Svendborg, Denmark. He studied at the academies in Amsterdam, Oslo and Copenhagen. He works in a crossover of media, including installation, sculpture, video, performance and photography, currently focusing on painting. The works emerge at the intersection of a variety of approaches; the critical, the absurd, the analytical and the poetic. Relating to current global/local transitions and changes, switching between microcosmic and macrocosmic views. There is an effort to make visible underlying structures and patterns in society and create a space for the contemplation of the human condition in a parallel now.