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Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine)

Temporary Public Artwork @Kulturmødet Mors at the camp of Danish Visual Artists

 

 

 

Installation view: Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine)

Temporary public artwork by Ida Retz Wessberg and Myne Søe-Pedersen

Selected by Danish Visual Artists

Kulturmødet Mors, Denmark 22.08-24.08.2024


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Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Unique temporary artwork in public space. Variable dimensions.

This installation's dimensions: L658xW300xH259 cm

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Lung sculpture part: L240xW125xH100 cm

Aquarium sculpture part: L80xW40xH40 cm


Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Oysters sculpture part: L160xW120xH35 cm.


Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Unique, casted jesmonite Oyster-sculpture and hidden smoke machine and smoke chamber (underneath).

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Detail Oyster-sculpture 

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Detail aquarium with found oyster-shells and hoses with air - blowing from the Lung-sculpture part

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Detail hoses with smoke - coming from underneath the Oyster-sculpture part

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Materials: Two PVC container banners with unique C-prints (photo-manipulated, scanned plastic hoses), plastic hoses, aquarium, found oyster shells, euro pallets, wooden box with motor and pump, foam foil, bubble wrap, PVC fabric with unique C-prints (photo collage of scanned watercolor and scanned plastic hose), unique colored jesmonite cast, metal construction, smoke machine, smoke chamber.
 


Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024


Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

Detail Lung sculpture part made of PVC fabric with unique C-prints (photo collage of scanned watercolor and scanned plastic hose), foam foil, bubble wrap, wooden box with motor and pump, plastic hoses.



Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine)

Af Ida Retz Wessberg og Myne Søe-Pedersen

Temporær udsmykning, Billedkunstnernes Forbunds Camp, Kulturmødet Mors 2024


Kunstnerne Myne Søe-Pedersen og Ida Retz Wessberg har med Åndedrætsmaskinen skabt et kredsløb, der visualiserer vores forbundethed med hinanden, naturen og atmosfæren.


Mennesker, dyr og planters eksistens er alle betinget af luft og vand. Som mennesker oplever vi dette gennem det livsnødvendige åndedræt (luft) og når vi drikker vand.


Retz Wessberg og Søe-Pedersen ser festivalen som sin egen levende organisme med sit eget åndedræg. En overdimensioneret organisk skulptur ligger og trækker vejret som symbol på dette kollektive åndedrag.


Med afsæt i åndedrættet og festivalens placering ved Limfjorden ønsker kunstnerne at reflektere over eksistentielle, lokale og klimapolitiske spørgsmål. Kunstnerne er for eksempel inspireret af den lokale truede Limfjordsøsters, hvilket ses i et af Åndedrætsmaskinens skulpturdele. De forskellige skulpturelle elementer er forbundet af plastikslanger, som visualiserer kredsløbet i installationen.


Det er under Kulturmødet Mors muligt at opleve en Artist Talk og formidlingsevent med kunstnerne og kunsthistoriker Bibi Henriksen Saugman (co-direktør Kunsthal Spritten) torsdag d. 22. august kl. 12.30 i Kunstens Camp.



Kunstnerne bag værket:

Åndedrætsmaskinen er det første værk i et tværgenerationelt samarbejde mellem de to kunstnere.


Fælles for Ida Retz Wessberg og Myne Søe-Pedersens kunstpraksisser er deres interesse for det stedsspecifikke, kroppen, det cirkulære, kvindelige narrativer og undersøgelse af forholdet mellem det materielle og immaterielle.


Myne Søe-Pedersen (f. 1972, DK) arbejder primært linsebaseret og er optaget af grænsefladen mellem det konkrete og det abstrakte, ofte med et kritisk blik på den kollektive hukommelse.


Ida Retz Wessberg (f. 1986, DK) arbejder skulpturelt, lydligt og grafisk. I sine værker spejler hun samtidens sociale emner, biologiske kredsløb og mellem det synlige og usynlige.




(ENGLISH VERSION)


Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine)

By Ida Retz Wessberg and Myne Søe-Pedersen

Temporary public artwork, Danish Visual Artists’ Camp, Kulturmødet Mors 2024


With The Breathing Machine, the artists Myne Søe-Pedersen and Ida Retz Wessberg have created a circuit that visualizes our connectedness with each other, nature and the atmosphere.


The existences of people, animals and plants are all dependent on air and water. As humans, we experience this through the vital breath (air) and when we drink water.


Retz Wessberg and Søe-Pedersen see the festival as its own living organism with its own breath. An oversized organic sculpture lies breathing, as a symbol of this collective breath.


Based on breathing and the festival's location by the Limfjord, the artists want to reflect on existential, local and climate political issues. For example are the artists inspired by the local endangered Limfjord’s Oyster, which is reflected in one of the sculptural parts of The Breathing Machine. The various sculptural elements are connected by plastic tubes, which visualizes the circuit in the installation.


During Kulturmødet Mors it is possible to experience an Artist Talk with the artists and arthistorian Bibi Henriksen Saugman (co-director Kunsthal Spritten) on Thursday the 22nd of August at 12.30 pm. in the Danish Visual Artists’ Camp.



The artists behind:

The Breathing Machine is the first common artwork in a cross-generational collaboration between the two artists.


Common to Ida Retz Wessberg and Myne Søe-Pedersen's art practices is their interest in the site-specific, the body, the circular, female narratives and investigation of the relation between the material and immaterial.


Myne Søe-Pedersen (b. 1972, DK) works primarily lens-based and is concerned with the interface between the concrete and the abstract, often with a critical look at collective memory.


Ida Retz Wessberg (b. 1986, DK) works sculpturally, sonically and graphically. In her works, she reflects contemporary social issues, biological cycles and between the visible and the invisible.



Tak/thanks to:

Assistant Hans von Hirsch


Støttet af/Supported by:

Billedkunstnernes Forbund (Danish Visual Artists)

Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation)


Sponsoreret af/Sponsored by:

Danmarks Skaldyrshovedstad

byggepladsbanner.dk

Continental Merlett Denmark

Danlube A7S (DanCast Akrylgips)

Simon Gorm Andersen

Åndedrætsmaskinen (The Breathing Machine) 2024

The two artists behind the artwork, Ida Retz Wessberg and Myne Søe-Pedersen