OFFICE OVERLOAD ARTWORK(S):
UNTITLED (2020)
Trine Struwe
The curtain is installed in-between the two conference rooms, creating a textile barrier penetrable by light and air, but not solids. The curtain has been treated with a UV sensitive dye and exposed hanging – in this way capturing light as a 1:1 contact print. The viewer might see the curtain as a form of barrier, separating the two rooms or experience it as augmenting the intimacy of the space behind it.
Materials: UV-sensitive dye on cotton voile, stainless steel wire cable, galvanized wire clamps
Dimensions: Variable
Slivering
(2019-2022, ongoing)
Trine Struwe
The work consists of bronze casts of soap slivers collected from the female members of my family (my grandmother, my mother, my aunts, my sister and me)
Materials:
Dimensions: Variable (ed. 3/3 + 1 AP)
Anti-Object (2023)
Trine Struwe
The public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public. The “ideal” public space within major cities is experienced as clean, inviting and safe. The sculpture critically explores how the built environment in public spaces are controlled in secret through behavior-regulating design.
The sculpture is based on the so-called "Camden Bench", a bench commissioned by Camden Borough Council in London as a piece of public furniture that would actively repel “anti-social behavior” in London’s city center. It has been produced by the UK company Factory Furniture since 2010. With its sloping surfaces and missing back-support, you cannot sit, let alone sleep, comfortably on it. It discourages loitering and gathering as it is hard and uncomfortable, only meant for a brief rest.
Anti-Object is a material and critical exploration of logic that the bench embodies - that public space should only be inviting for people already on their way somewhere else, capable bodies always on the move.
The sculpture is site-specifically made for the exhibition Wet, Work at Fabrikken For Kunst og Design. Fabrikken is located within the area of Sundholm, which is a sort of city within the city. Sundholm is a diverse and socially complex area of Copenhagen that offers transitional accommodation to unhoused adults and/or help with alcohol, drugs, mental health and/or behavioral issues. Sundholm is run by the social administration of the municipality and is an area (also) threatened by gentrification.
Materials: MDF
ABOUT THE ARTIST(S):
Trine Struwe (b. 1988, DK) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Copenhagen (DK). Through working with material as imbued carriers of histories, her practice explores the tension between concept and material and the potential it holds. In her work, she is trying to develop a language, based upon the rifts and voids that might arise from (and within) the way we constitute our meaning. It is an attempt to challenge the hegemony that linguistics hold and instead work with the vibrations, oscillations, waves and automatic reactions that continuously flow between us. She is concerned with the interconnected and simultaneous occurrence of human and more-than-human materialities, bodies, and entities.
She graduated with an MA from Royal College of Art in London (UK) in 2020 and with a BFA from Malmö Art Academy (SE) and The Cooper Union in New York (US) in 2016. She recently opened her first institutional solo show at Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Korsør, DK). Previously her work has been shown in contexts such as Lunds Konsthall (Lund, SE), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), Fold Gallery (London, UK), Obra (Malmö, SE) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, DK).
She graduated with an MA from Royal College of Art in London (UK) in 2020 and with a BFA from Malmö Art Academy (SE) and The Cooper Union in New York (US) in 2016. She recently opened her first institutional solo show at Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Korsør, DK). Previously her work has been shown in contexts such as Lunds Konsthall (Lund, SE), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), Fold Gallery (London, UK), Obra (Malmö, SE) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, DK).
www.trinestruwe.com
@trinestruwe
Photos: Niklas Adrian Vindelev