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Another Kind of High

In my graduation work, scale and size play a prominent role. My work appears in four different rooms, as well as outside between the two buildings of OK26 and OK74. In one room you will find three paper pedestals. A fourth one is brought in the room at times as a prop when I perform ‘Another Kind of High’, a lecture on the ability of space to transform according to our needs. The other three support three groups of small, fragile sculptures made of paper that depict a scenery of love, one of a party interaction, and one of a solitary man smoking on an armchair, next to an empty chair. In another room is placed my papier-mache sculpture of a big, pink, hairy foot.

This sculpture is called ‘Who is the monster now?’. Large scale appears again in the auditorium of OK26, where a big chair made of wood serves as a reading spot for people to take their time reading the four books that I made: ‘The Minotaur Poems’, ‘Standing Still Until The Mouse Leaves’, ‘Do You Have Any Questions’, and ‘Ongoing Monologue’. In a corridor in the back, an audio piece plays every hour with a recording of my sleep talk. In it I say the sentence ‘I was about to dream of you’. The two buildings are connected by two 25 m long, 10 cm high banners that showcase an evocative text about rain.

ARTIST BIO

  • I view my art practice as an intensified form of journaling, maintaining a close connection to everyday life. Daily landscapes and figures appear as characters in a fantasy world featuring a heart-broken Minotaur, a vast labyrinth, and a crazy inventor building dubious machines. This sense of voyeurism drives me to play with the audience’s perception, enlarging or shrinking familiar landscapes and offering glimpses into inaccessible “other sides.” My work emerges from unexpected encounters and takes various forms, including sculpture, installation, video, and poetry. I often adapt my pieces to fit the exhibition space by reinventing and rearranging both older and newer works.