An exhibition about the materials of the earth, slow transformations and the temporalities that extend beyond humans. The artists take as their starting point materials from the area around Dybbølsgade in Vesterbro - soil, plants, minerals and traces from the city's surfaces.
With new works in graphics, installation, painting and handmade paper, weathering is examined as both a geological process and a cultural representation: how materials slowly change, and how our understanding of the valuable and the "sacred" can be in flux in a time marked by ecological crises and new relationships between humans, the environment and other species.
Anna Weber Henriksen works directly with the materials of Dybbølsgade. Copper plates are brought into physical contact with asphalt, soil, sand and salt, so that the chemistry of the place is gradually made visible in the corrosion of the metal and in graphic impressions.
Luise Noora Sejersen takes as her starting point the tradition of icon painting and incorporates plants - including dead nettles and stinging nettles - into contemporary icons using tempera, earth pigments and plant-based paper.
The exhibition is staged in collaboration with Frederikke Krogh, with a focus on spatial dramaturgy and lighting. The works form a movement through the exhibition - from Weber Henriksen's process-oriented installations with the slow decomposition of materials to Noora Sejersen's symbolic transformations of the meaning of plants and the earth. Together they point to slow processes and temporalities that continue long after us.
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