- Arkiv
- Trine Søndergaard
- year: 2020 & 2021
- edition 3: 150 x 200 cm / edition 5: 110 x 146 cm / 60 x 80 cm
- archival pigment print
Trine Søndergaard’s series Arkiv focuses on historical textiles and garments. Here you can sense the outlines and textures of the textiles enveloped in the translucent wrapping tissue. The fragility is palpable. As gradients of white, the artifacts appear further delicate, seemingly not even able to withstand our direct gaze. With this maneuver, Søndergaard draws attention to where the items currently belong: in a historical collection.
The works from 2021 show items from Greve Museum, which has generously given the artist access to its collection. When choosing to preserve something, you assign it a certain value of meaning. And this is interesting as it implies a presumption of inaccessibility in the future, as an observation of what lies dormant in the object: “It just waits for posterity”.
The works from 2020 show silk gowns between layers of gossamer tissue paper. The silk gowns were worn by local women in the 18th and 19th century. The gowns are from a local history museum archive in Søllerød north of Copenhagen. They are incredibly delicate, and usually carefully ensconced in tissue paper and hidden away in archive boxes. In Trine Søndergaard’s works the fabric of the gowns can just be sensed behind the protective wrapping that conceals them – like a veiled past we can only catch a glimpse of. The works are over 2 metres high – much larger than in real life. The large-scale format generates a feeling of being enveloped by the paper and silk, immersing us in the almost tangible sensuality of their materiality.
- Arkiv
- Trine Søndergaard
- year: 2020 & 2021
- edition 3: 150 x 200 cm / edition 5: 110 x 146 cm / 60 x 80 cm
- archival pigment print
Trine Søndergaard’s series Arkiv focuses on historical textiles and garments. Here you can sense the outlines and textures of the textiles enveloped in the translucent wrapping tissue. The fragility is palpable. As gradients of white, the artifacts appear further delicate, seemingly not even able to withstand our direct gaze. With this maneuver, Søndergaard draws attention to where the items currently belong: in a historical collection.
The works from 2021 show items from Greve Museum, which has generously given the artist access to its collection. When choosing to preserve something, you assign it a certain value of meaning. And this is interesting as it implies a presumption of inaccessibility in the future, as an observation of what lies dormant in the object: “It just waits for posterity”.
The works from 2020 show silk gowns between layers of gossamer tissue paper. The silk gowns were worn by local women in the 18th and 19th century. The gowns are from a local history museum archive in Søllerød north of Copenhagen. They are incredibly delicate, and usually carefully ensconced in tissue paper and hidden away in archive boxes. In Trine Søndergaard’s works the fabric of the gowns can just be sensed behind the protective wrapping that conceals them – like a veiled past we can only catch a glimpse of. The works are over 2 metres high – much larger than in real life. The large-scale format generates a feeling of being enveloped by the paper and silk, immersing us in the almost tangible sensuality of their materiality.