The exhibition presents sculptures, installations, paintings and drawings, all made from recycled materials. Through aesthetic processing, the artists have transformed something that is initially ugly, worn and inconspicuous into something potent and poetic.
Among the works in the exhibition, we encounter, among others, used textiles inserted into sculptural formations in dialogue with Gammelgaard’s architecture by Charlotte Thrane, flimsy and obsolete waste wood as a basic element in paintings by Kristofer Hultenberg and elements from kitchen cabinets transformed into a monumental collage by Michael Mørk. While some of the works are new, the artists also show a few existing works that contribute to a dialogue about their own material cycle.
The artists' characteristic exploration of materials forces attention to the value and potential of materials on the one hand and their fleeting status on the other. What has great emotional significance for us in one moment can be thrown away the next and replaced by something new, to which we then attach new feelings. In this schism lies the seed of many of today's challenges. The focus of the exhibition thus aligns with the acute need in our time to, in a broader sense, rethink our approach to materials and raw materials.
Source: Gammelgaard