Visit our temporary exhibition, "A Bird Sings in the Bush of Your Bones: Martine Myrup x Øregaard Museum," and see how the sculptor Martine Myrup challenges the human narratives on animals and engages her works, made of used textile, in a dialogue with the museum’s permanent collection.
Martine Myrup (b. 1977) was educated at the Glasgow School of Art and uses recycled textiles in her sculptures. In recent years, she has become fascinated with animal motifs in figurative language. The used textiles, hand-sewn onto the surface of the sculptures, possess their own sensory expressiveness and historical references as ready-made materials. Her works incorporate used textiles from the 18th to the 20th century, therein reflecting the historical range of the museum's collection through the material.
Myrup is particularly interested in deer, a species that features prominently in the grand narratives of Western culture: we encounter them in classical mythology, in the Old and New Testaments, in Grimm's fairy tales, and in 19th-century landscape painting. In more recent history, deer appear as portrayals of good and evil in popular culture, especially in Disney-movies, and in postmodern kitsch that plays on the nostalgia associated with deer since the 19th century.
The exhibition is supported by the National Bank of Denmark's Anniversary Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, and the Danish Arts Foundation. It inaugurates a new exhibition series where the collection is curated in collaboration with a contemporary artist who contributes with new works and perspectives.
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Øregaard Museum
Øregaard Museum