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Mia Line: Gradiva, 2018. Jesmonite, 65 x 35 x 4 cm.
Mia Line’s relief Gradiva is cast in jesmonite. The relief’s clean, white surface leads the thoughts on
to antique Greek and Roman statues and reliefs. Just so is the motive in Gradiva in accordance with
an antique past. Line’s starting point for the work is exactly a classic antique relief which pictures a young woman walking. The artist has found a copy of the original antique relief, with which she through several photographs has succeeded to create a 3D-model of.
The title of the work Gradiva refers to the name of the woman in the original relief and is given by Wilhelm Jensen in his novel Gradiva from 1903. The novel is about the protagonist, a German archaeologist, who sees the original relief at a Roman art museum and in his obsession of the antique artwork he names the woman Gradiva. The actual novel has psychoanalytical undertones because the protagonist’s obsession with Gradiva manifests itself in his dreams. By same reason the famous psychoanalyst Freud were interested in both the novel and the Gradiva motive and the story says that he had a cast replica hung over his sofa in his practice.
Mia Line (1984, DK) graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen in 2019. Line has exhibited at The Royal Cast Collection, DK; Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK; Østre Chapel, DK; Kræ Syndicate, DK; Art Centre ved siden af, DK; Ping-pong Charlottenborg, DK, and The Carlsberg City Gallery and Salon, DK, among others.
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