Davide Hjort Di Fabio: Clip-In

It is a familiar choreography: the instinctive withdrawal of the body as a needle pierces the skin – the eyes lifting toward and resting on the ceiling above. For Davide Hjort Di Fabio, this upward gaze has become tied to the perforated hospital ceiling panels he encounters during recurring blood tests. The surface overhead seems to echo the body below; its tiny openings mirror the sensation in the arm, as though space and flesh were briefly responding to one another. Architecture is so often shaped around us, attentive to our needs and vulnerabilities. Yet in this moment of reciprocity, a question gathers force: Who is modelling whom?

In Clip-In, his first exhibition with NILS STÆRK, Di Fabio introduces new wall-hung and floor-based sculptures. Most works in the exhibition originate from casts of his torso in clay, acting as a point of gestural departure. Once lifted from the mold, the forms open and stretch, loosening themselves from the body that initiated them. Repetition guides this unfolding: the gestures of casting and reshaping accumulate over time, leaving traces that drift from their bodily source and settle into hybrid imprints, part mechanical and part biological. The sculptures feel intimate yet estranged, gestures that recall a beginning without returning to it.

Venue: Holbergsgade 19, 1057 Copenhagen K

Source:
NILS STÆRK