“There’s never any innocence in the processes of remembering and forgetting.” The art of reframing and rephrasing, discursively creating and conveniently forgetting, the misconstrued, the black holes, the blind spots: ‘Alternative facts’ have always been present in the making of our histories, nations, self-storytelling and -imaging. When the banks collapsed in Iceland in 2008, not only did the country fall into a deep recession, its inhabitants also found themselves in a ‘cultural crash’; the nation’s collective reality proved to be an illusion, a construct: fiction. ‘We always need heroes’ surveys the contemporary state of our narrative landscapes. A multi-vocal complex of perspectives, in which interchanging voices complete one another’s sentences, punctuate and perforate their meanings, and derail directions.

‘We always need heroes’ is a multidisciplinary project by visual artist Rosie Heinrich. The project also comprises a video work – click here for teaser.