About Mette Kit Jensens projects:

Mette Kit Jensen´s primary interest is in the sociological and inner topographical perceptions of public spaces. For the most part she has been working directly in public areas. Recently her main interest has been researching the historical relationship between artist and public space. During her 3 month residency at the Danish Institute in Rome she studied different relationships surrounding the emergence of the big city/metropolis in particular. She also made sketches for new work while there. She has become interested in the term ”to flanere” as an artistic method. A fläneur is a loafer; a person who enjoys idling about on the street. A fläneur is an ambitious figure driven by curiosity and a desire to be close to reality. On the other hand in order to distance himself from the same reality a flaneur is flamboyant and carefully stages his behaviour. Some flâneurs took a stroll with a turtle on a lead to slow down the tempo and predictability of the big city. The term flâneur emerged in Paris the 1800’s. A flâneur was originally a man. Mette Kit Jensen has decided to define the female flâneur or flâneuse. There is an endless list of novels describing the male flâneure’s view of the phenomenon of the then new city metropolis. Mette Kit Jensen will bring the figure into the present where new challenges lie in moving from local to global where tourists observe a foreign city with wonder and distance.