Five Broken Hearts & Studio Rendevous 2022

Five Broken Hearts
The room, titled Five Broken Hearts, is about common emotions related to loss and death. It contains three new works, two of which belong together. They stand or lie on the floor facing each other. One is a book-printed text entitled You were dead. The words are taken from a sentence in the French poet Jacques Roubaud's book "Quelque chose noir" ("Some Thing Black"). Here he tries to put the loss of his beloved into words. The second work is a large galvanised steel skull entitled No Title. The combined work is a new addition to a long line of texts and related works under the common title Words Found More Added. In the text section, I work to find phrases in the literature that I read in connection with my art production. Once the book is chosen and the sentence found, I respond to it with a sentence that I write myself. Finally, I create a spatial piece for the text, in this case a skull. The skull is the protector of the brain, which along with the heart are the symbols we have associated ourselves with as individuals throughout the ages. The third work in the room is a relief cast in aluminium with the full title Five Broken Hearts. One Mended. The brain, the heart and a little hope in the midst of sadness.