As a landscape wants the living Degree Show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2024
Wild clay pigment, wild clay fired as earthenware and stoneware, fired stone, bark, gall apples, seaweed, tansy, rumex crispus, pine, glue, leaf metal. 900 x 500 cm.
Exhibition Text:
As a landscape want the living is a dialogue between a body and a landscape. The wall-based work is composed of clay, flowers, branches and stones Raselli has collected and processed. The clay, which she uses as a pigment to paint with, is obtained from a marl pit and fired at different temperatures to create color nuances. As a form of landscape painting, the work represents a meeting between the processes of the body and nature. The internal transformations of the female body are linked to those of nature, where the return of seasons reflects the circular movements of life from birth to flowering to death and the rise of new creatures.
In the essay Red Summer, Raselli reflects on the inherent transformational potential of the female body from a menstruating to a reproductive body. In this, she develops the foundation for an active artistic practice that, like the body's life-giving and creative processes, is both passive and active at the same time. The two works raise questions about what knowledge is embedded in our bodies and our surrounding landscapes, which has been handed down through generations and millennia of evolution, what our bodies and landscapes already know in relation to life's big and small changes and how can we become better at understanding their language as part of an artistic practice.
Awarded by the Poul Erik Bech Foundation, the Vibedehus Foundation and the Elli and Peter Ove Christensen Foundation
The publication of Røde Sommer is supported by Birgit Vibeke Toft's Memorial Fund
Documentation photos: David Stjernholm