The sculpture Quiet Wednesday Morning looks like something between a football pitch, a pool table and a skate ramp. At each end of the sculpture you see a photo – an empty football pitch and an old detached house from the suburbs.
When you walk through the suburbs on a Wednesday morning, it is quiet. The adults are at work and the children are at school. Our home and the football pitch have to wait until we get time off. Most of our day is planned by others. The silence on the small roads in the suburbs testifies to the structures we are subjected to in the low-income segment. While we work to earn a living we dream of the freedom our own homes provides and about playing on the green fields.
The artwork is a reproduction of an older work that was created when Nanna Gro Henningsen was a warehouse worker in an industrial area in Glostrup for 125 kr. per hour. Football and mortgages were the two big topics of conversation at work.
For the opening on May 1st, Nanna Gro Henningsen and Tobias R. Kirstein, who shows in the other dressingroom at Skjold Contemporary, will give two May Day speeches. The speeches are written as spoken word works for the day and the exhibition.
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Skjold Contemporary
Skjold Contemporary