In the exhibition “Coming Into View From Dreams,” Anne S. Heiberg and Johanne Helga
Heiberg exchange visions and ideas about alternative societies, symbiotic communities, and
the search for a life in harmony with nature.
Heiberg exchange visions and ideas about alternative societies, symbiotic communities, and
the search for a life in harmony with nature.
This takes place through woodcut as a shared language, with references to literature, pop culture, and worldbuilding - and with a foundation in historical utopias about a better world. Humans have always dreamed of a place where everything is good, the perfect place. A kind of paradise - a place on earth in this life rather than in afterlife.
The exhibition explores what these concepts might mean for us. Is it something found in everyday life, as a moment of happiness experienced individually? Or perhaps it is the dream of nature in balance, or a broader societal model where genuine and diverse democracy can unfold? The exhibition is a conversation, an exchange in the form of prints, with ideas flowing between the works.
The works are exploratory and playful, created through woodcut.
It speaks to a present shaped by crisis thinking and imaginaries marked by an absence of positive expectations for the future.
The exhibition is supported by the Poul Johansen Foundation of 1992.
Kilde:
Danske Grafikeres Hus
Danske Grafikeres Hus