Agents, 2024
Fired clay collected from the Waddenzee, wax, fused glass, steel
Photos: Lena Bergendahl
Agents, 2024
Fired clay collected from the Waddenzee, wax, fused glass, steel
Photo: Gunnhild Torgersen
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In the main exhibition room, the sculpture series Agents is inspired by a theory about the origin of
life. How did the landscape go from empty and lifeless to one populated by organisms – things that
are distinct from their environment, that have their own identity, their own aims? Their goals are
curiously absent from their substance and form, beyond the self, always in the future. The Agents,
made out of clay from the Waddenzee, build on a biological theory that emphasizes this void or
absence, the negative space that defines life.
Extract of the essay The purposeful and the desolate by Christiaan Henkel, full version here.
Agents, 2024
Photo: Lena Bergendahl
Agents, 2024
Photo: Lena Bergendahl
Agents, 2024
Photo: Gunnhild Torgersen
Agents, 2024
Photo: Lena Bergendahl
Agents, 2024
Photo: Lena Bergendahl
Agents, 2024
Photo: Gunnhild Torgersen
Agents, 2024
Photo: Gunnhild Torgersen
