COPENHAGEN, CRITICS PICK ANN LISLEGAARD THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, COPENHAGEN January 24 - April 13 Ann Lislegaard's work makes the gallery walls speak. In this exhibition, architecture becomes vibrant with affect, and space grows denser with emotive information. Her installation Eyes Wide Open, 2002, is a study of a woman - a friend or a loved one, or just the radiant presence of somebody subject to a kind of loving scrutiny. In evenly paced stop-motion frames, three projections mix details of a woman's face and body parts with full-length shots. From different loudspeakers in the space, a female voice offers brief descriptions of her actions or postures. Images and sound track are disconnected in a way that defies narrative expectations. Minute forms of body language, flirtation or signals of boredom, flutter into space, teetering on the brink between girl- and womanhood. One intertext for Lislegaard's installation is silent movie director Carl Th. Dreyer's famous close-ups, which revealed the intensity of an actress's face and the drama of her acting. The fascination of Eyes Wide Open is the way it peels a single motif layer by layer, transforming these free-floating images into an unfolding of space and identity. Lars Bang Larsen