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The exhibition A circular story by Helen Nishijo Andersen shows her architect project, that deals with a floating circus. Her models and sketches stages the circus as a wonderful combination of a fictive world and the reality that we are a part of. The result is a world where dreamlike, poetic and fantastic dimensions are searched but also a world for the alternatives. The circus has always been home for the outcasts, the entertainers, the displaced, the tramps, the gypsies and the freaks. In some ways it is the reservoir for the dream of freedom and the poetic but also for the grotesque and the irrational.

This representation is what has been the base for Helen Nishijo Andersens floating circus. In addition Nishijo Andersen has rethought the mobile part of the circus by making a solid hangar where the circus can be put into its own port, and here one find practice- and recovering rooms. The circus it self is a ship that can sail from port to port and make their shows.

The exhibition shows models and drawings of the structure of the floating circus. The importance put into the process in the project and not the final construction. Thereby the exhibition turns into how a project comes into existence – from ideas and thinking process to physical hand drawings and computer- and wood models.

Helen Nishijo Andersen is educated from the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts school of Architecture in Copenhagen in 2008. The project that is shown in KBH Kunsthal is her first exhibition and is her exam project from the school of Architecture. Nishijo Andersen lives and works in Copenhagen.

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