Libretto for Maersk McKinney Moeller
2015
Video, 8 x (00:00:10).
Materials: 8 animated films, digital black-and-white video, silent, in loop
Collection: Collection of the artist .
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913–2012) was Denmark’s wealthiest person. The shipping magnate spent the equivalent of 310 million euros on building the new opera house in Copenhagen, and donated it to the Danish people. Raila was in Copenhagen at the time of Mc-Kinney Møller’s funeral, and snapped a photograph of the people on either side of the security cordon. He has written a synopsis for a libretto that he may or may not turn into an opera about his encounter with the spirit of the deceased philanthropist. For now, he exhibits it as a wall-text and eight short animated films that incorporate his drawings of the script’s ten scenes.
