Textile and lights installation, event program and artist book. 2020/ 2021
In collaboration with Maria Michailidou and Mette Borup Kristensen
An installation of different coloured lights and of large, moveable, coloured textile surfaces of various textures and transparencies creates open and flexible spaces, adding layers, hiding or highlighting the permanent cast collection, and at the same time, make space for the constant changes through the events with interactions and alterations of exhibited works.
Antikmuseet/Museum of Ancient Art, Århus
Installation with moveable textiles and light
Installation view
- textile various size, transparency and colour
Installation view
- The Forest of sculptures and textile
Installation detail
- textile and light: A pink shower from Chinese lamps bought in Athens
Installation view
- various coloured lights on the cast copy of the east pediment, south part of the Parthenon in Athens. The original sculptures used to wear colours too but not these at all, and not made from light
Installation detail
- textile and coloured light together with the lover left side of AthenaThe exhibition activates the museum’s permanent cast collection through the overall theme of movement. Movement as an embedded aspect at many levels of our being and lived and exemplified by the life of the sculptures e.g. in the movement in the antique sculptures’ positions -physical and status vice through out time, the movement as a constant change in how we look at our (ancient) past, the movement of various materials, and materials that change when weathering and bodies in movement in performance and dance as a way to bond with the condensed time the sculptures hold.
Event program (event no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
event no. 4 – I turn right and the space moves left
- dance performance together with Unisons
event no. 4 – I turn right and the space moves left
- plaster object/sculpture in dance performance
event no. 4 – I turn right and the space moves left
- sculpture enter the exhibition during dance performance
event no. 2 – The project space
- Frame Walk position no. 5. Leftover textiles from the installation turned into paper and fixed on a frame. Presented to sculptures in various parts of the museum
event no. 1 – Interactions: Perkussiv koreografi by Felia Gram-Hanssen
- Wearing a cape with a score, a movement starts along objects and sculptures, and a dialogue with them through sound and motion takes place
event no. 3 – Appointment with Iris
- A slideshow in 40 parts. 'Her head is at the Louvre. Her body at the British Museum. Does the mouth speak French by now? Her wings are the small stones at the Acropolis site that visitors are not allowed to pick...'
