2017 A colaboration with Linn Lindström
The exhibition at ENIGMA Museum for post, Tele og Kommunikation presents an ongoing mail-art project which started in 2015. With materiality as communication tools, we decided to maintain contact by sending things to each other. At twelve on a certain weekday, we synchronously collect each an item and send it to each other by mail. This non-verbal correspondence is now a collection containing over 270 souvenirs from everyday life, ranging from an eyelash to snow to a garlic press. Through installation, sculpture and video, the exhibition deals with communication, materiality and memory. We are working with the gift and the souvenir from a social and philosophical perspective and asks whether a memory is stuck in the object or in the mind.
SIMULTANEOUS SOUVENIRS
(a record of a wordless correspondence)
notice board with souvenirs (4.5m x 3m), overview with descriptions and dates, bubble-wrapped pillar
AIR MAIL # 1
installation in glass box. Material: 200 franked envelopes, sculptures in clay and feathers
AIR MAIL # 2
sculpture. material: balloon, mail cage
CARDBOARD MONUMENT
Installation in cardboard. material: cardboard, tape, sculptures in clay, rubber band, transit blancet, pink bubble wrap
FROM HERO TO ZERO
Video projected on balloon. 6 min (played in loop)
Pigeons can identify light within five different wavelength ranges. Pigeons recognize themselves in the mirror. Pigeons can communicate with symbolic language. Humans still do not know how pigeons' navigation ability work, but has used it for hundreds of years, to communicate by letters. Pigeons have been used when difficult to send messages, such as between islands or during World War one and two. Pigeons have lived side by side with humans for over 5,000 years and have gone from a symbol of divinity and peace to be described as "rats with wings".
