Boy World Effigy II — a new video and sound work by Hart Lëshkina
@hart_leshkina
Opening at O–Overgaden
@overgaden_ Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Friday, 10 October · 6pm–12am
Curated by Anna Frost
@annafrost_
This installation marks Hart Lëshkina’s first European institutional solo show. In Boy World Effigy II, Denmark’s historic Herning Kirkes Drengekor becomes both subject and metaphor. Through a four-channel video and eight-channel sound installation, the work traces the fragile thresholds between individuality and collective order — between self and system. The choir appears as a symbolic institution, steeped in ritual, harmony, and discipline, while navigating the quiet violence of assimilation that underpins collective belonging.
The installation unfolds as a constellation of performance sequences and uncanny constructed fragments from the choirboys’ daily lives. Harmonized voices, synchronized gestures, and abrupt interruptions form a fractured rhythm that illuminates the boundaries between harmony and coercion, unity and erasure, performance and authentic selfhood.
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the William Demant Foundation
O–Overgaden
Overgaden Neden Vandet 17
1414 København K, Denmark
On view 10–19 October 2025
Credits & cast: Producer
@lasselund.film · Cinematographer
@andersvonholck · Casting
@sorendrastrup · 1st AC Frank Nielsen · Gaffer Simon Maro · Sound Recordist
@gustavwittendorf · Choir Recordist Alex Mørch · Audio Post
@micheltyabji · Post Production
@studio_private · Production Coordinator Siw Lillelund · Production Assistant
@magnestarck · Cast
@herningkirkesdrengekor johansdorr
@marinusrefnov @noah_hlins mathiaslysthauge Zigurd Villi Bang and dogs Haggi, Werner & Aika · Music by
@herningkirkesdrengekor and
@presser___ · Thanks to
@rheadall , the Frost family, Lone Bergholdt Hald, Severin Korsgaard, bianca_redgrave, Jels Vikingspil, Lene Bilstrup Pedersen, and Brian Bentzen
