the dreadful sound when the fish went fishing

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MAY 01 - JUNE 12, 2009 Opening: MAY 01, 6-10 pm DUVE Berlin is pleased to present Danish artist Mie Olise Kjà ¦rgaard with her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Allegories", Walter Benjamin wrote in 1928, "are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things" (178). And, to give his thought a backward reading, ruins have long been taken as allegories: for the unsettling experience of change, for the moment in which man-made creation can no longer resist natures destructive forces. Kjà ¦rgaard's work evolves around the existential struggle between work of man and nature at stake within ruins and desolated landscapes — crumbling architectural structures and empty urban shells