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Amalie Jakobsen: 2019 TH, 2019. Aluminum, 124 x 52 x 90 cm.
Sculptor Amalie Jakobsen works with the sculpture in a nature reflecting and technology investigating field. Amalie Jakobsen combines strong colors with minimalist shapes, and her materials range from the classics such as steel, aluminum, and marble to latex and alternative pigments. The work 2019 TH originates from her exhibition Fool’s Gold at the gallery Gether Contemporary. Here, the strong colors and streamlined sculptures were replaced in favor of a spatial installation that mimicked a meteor shower in outer space. Thus, the aluminum sculptures hung from the ceiling and seemed to flow through the room in motion. 2019 TH was part of the meteor shower and appears just like an object that has landed on Earth after traveling in outer space. The sculpture has both an organic and mannered expression. Its surface has a rough and natural quality, while its edges and corners, in contrast, are sharp and very far from the expression of nature. Amalie Jakobsen is interested in space in an expanded form. Here, it is not just the way her sculptures occupy and change space that is in focus, but also how we as viewers perceive space with our bodies. In this way, she thinks both concretely and abstractly about space, and in the case of 2019 TH, she even includes the outer space to bring it into an artistic context. Here, man’s exploration of the universe is both a subject of fascination and anxiety, just as man’s technological achievements are examined and put in questioning relation to the state of our planet and the consequences our technology has on the globe.
Amalie Jakobsen (1989 DK) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Goldsmiths University of London. Amalie Jakobsen has exhibited at GL Strand, DK; Future Gallery, DE; Politiken’s Forhal, DK; Efrain Lopez Gallery, US; TwilSharp Gallery, ZA; Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, DK and Nikolaj Kunsthal, DK. Her works are part of the collections at the Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, the New Carlsberg Foundation, the National Arts Foundation and Brandts. She has created several works for the public space, and in 2021 she received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Honorary Grant.
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