The Traps

A trap for my mother’s husband – notes from conversation with my father, 2024
Drawing on paper – framed 31 · 44 cm.

Snake Trap, 2024
Glass, stainless steel, string 12 · 20 · 100 cm.

Instruction / for use: Put on the suit. Put your right arm through the hole. With the index finger draw the letter «p» on your brow. Alongside the «p» draw another «p». Continue. At the temple «p» starts changing form, and at the neck it is a «q». 2024
Silk and wool knit, steel 120 · 40 · 10 cm.
Photo 58 · 42 cm.

Instruction / for use: Put on the suit. Put the arms through the two holes. Place the band under you and rest. 2024
Silk and wool knit, steel 90 · 30 · 10 cm.
Photo 58 · 42 cm.

Instruction / for use: Put on the suit. Put your hands through the two holes at the back. Take a step while treading down the band in front of you. Take another step while treading down the band in front of you. Continue. 2024
Silk and wool knit, buttons, steel 180 · 40 · 10 cm.
Photos 58 · 42 cm. (2)

Sex Bag For Lucie And Tomas, 2024
Cotton satin, batting, zippers 190 · 60 · 8 cm.
Photo 58 · 42 cm.

Galleri Nef is run by Lucie Gottlieb and Tomas Sjögren, who are included in the title.

The Traps presents seven works produced over the past year.

I work with sculpture because it relates to what is physically possible, yet is able to contain complete opposites – like humans.

A trap is commonly a device used to capture and perhaps kill and animal. It is used to capture something you wish to possess, get rid of, or have the power over.
Traps are ridiculous, shrewd, hideous, and necessary.

The sculptures in the exhibition are all catalysts for potential actions or activities.

The sculptures are made out of cotton, wool, silk, and transparent glass. Their surfaces are permeable and open to give the user the opportunity to become a part of the different structures.

The meaning of a sentence can be removed by repeating the sentence over and over. Is it similarly possible to remove the meaning of an action by repeating it again and again? Or is each action a new one?

The sculptures can be seen as dramas. They have an outset and a goal. They do something.

The drawing A trap for my mother’s husband – notes from a conversation with my father, comes from the desire to build a trap for my mother’s husband because I do not see any other way to capture him, or to alter his position. I asked my father, who is an engineer, to help me with this, and the work is, as the title says, the drawn notes we used to understand each other.

tak Anne Kølbæk Iversen og Sara Wrist Osterman
Supported by Danish Arts Foundation
Nordic Culture Point

Some of the works are documented in Copenhagen.