Lower Lifeforms, 2023, Horsens Art Museum (photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen)

Infrastructure, 2023, clear acrylic, wood, plastic, radiant acrylic, mold, concrete, bronze, filter, 95 × 114 × 44 cm

Lower Lifeforms, 2023, Horsens Art Museum (photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen)

Infrastructure, Acrylic, wood, concrete, silicon, radiant acrylic, plastic, mold, and bronze respiratory system. 64 x 66 x 23,5 cm,

Night Bloom Central, Ulterior Gallery 2022, (photo: Jason Mandella)

Infrastructure, acrylic, wood, concrete, silicon, radiant acrylic, plastic, mold, and bronze respiratory system 40,6 x 40,6 x 134,6 cm,

Night Bloom Central, Ulterior Gallery 2022, (photo:Jason Mandella)

Untitled, mold on wood hermetically sealed by acrylic glass. 2016-2018

Installation view, Noma Copenhagen, 2018

Infrastructure, clear acrylic, wood, silicon, radiant acrylic, plastic, mold, bronze respiratory system, 31 x 45 x 30 cm. 2020 (photo: Jonas Søgaard)

Infrastructure, clear acrylic, wood, silicon, radiant acrylic, plastic, mold, bronze respiratory system, 117 x 60 x 40 cm. 2020 (photo: Jonas Søgaard)

Infrastructure, clear acrylic, wood, palm leaves, mold, aluminum respiratory system, 93x70x35 cm. 2018

Infrastructure, bronze, clear acrylic, wood, palm leaves, plant seeds, mold, and concrete 130x50x40 cm. Face of another at Galleri Susanne Ottesen 2018. 

Photo: Anders Sune Berg

Infrastructure, bronze, clear acrylic, wood, palm leaves, plant seeds, mold and concrete 89x71x51 cm. Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles 2018

 

 

Through the establishment of ideal living conditions for mold fungus, the Mold series explore the aesthetics and lifespans of mold, by giving artistic authorship to the organisms, their unpredictability and invasive properties. In most environments there exist several hundreds of different mold species. Being one of nature’s most profound decomposers, they play an important role in the continuous cycle between growth and decay of any given ecosystem.

 

The Infrastructure series comprise mold growths on synthetic and organic structures, resembling cityscapes. The different fungal species inhabiting the works competes for food and space. They establish networks of mycelium, which breeds millions of mold spores, like citizens in a microcosm, invisible for the human eye. Inside and on top of the acrylic glass tanks, bronze figures are placed and provided with mold protection masks. These respiratory systems add air to the organisms, while preventing the spores and mycotoxins from entering the outside space.




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