Drafts of Ecology/

PSYCHE INTERIOR

Psyche Interior — Cabinet. 1
Bookcase, LED light, laser engraved plexiglas, magnetic butterflies, carabiners, ornamented shelf brackets and custom electrical cord.
Contents: Deer bone wrapped in bubblewrap & empty Monster Energy Hydra with attached silicone bracelets.

Psyche Interior — Cabinet. 2
Bookcase, LED light, laser engraved plexiglas, magnetic butterflies, carabiners, ornamented shelf brackets and custom electrical cord.
Contents: Dried mandarins.

Psyche Interior — Cabinet. 3
Bookcase, LED light, laser engraved plexiglas, magnetic butterflies, carabiners, hand-cut aluminum, dyed bolts, ornamented shelf brackets and custom electrical cord.
Contents: Hair of a Lagotto Romagnolo(truffle/marsh dog) wrapped in scoby leather and silk ribbon.

Bulletin. 1
Magnetic butterflies & businesscard from Le Gourmand with stain from MDMA purification testkit attached to iron plate.

Bulletin. 2
Magnetic butterflies & watercolor on paper attached to iron plate.

Bulletin. 3
Magnetic butterflies, paper cutouts, cyanotype, manual from beehive decoy & label from Paw Patrol sleeping bag attached to iron plate.

Bulletin. 4
Magnetic butterflies & paper cutout from cartoon attached to iron plate.

Bulletin. 5
Magnetic butterflies, magnets, receipt from Uniqlo & Wunderbar attached to iron plate.

The Archive:

Model for Environment
IKEA KNUFF Magazineholder, Spirulina, magnetic paint, modelling bush, modelling figure - on custom plinth.

Recherche et Fantaisie
IKEA KNUFF Magazineholder, Spirulina, magnetic paint, magnetic butterflies, archival research material, colored glossy paper, plastic dog mask - on custom plinth.
Beastial Rehearsal
IKEA KNUFF Magazineholder, Spirulina, magnetic paint, magnetic butterflies, varied fur scraps - on custom plinth.

Palissade
IKEA KNUFF Magazineholder, Spirulina, magnetic paint, magnetic butterflies, dried pacay fruit, paper scraps, colored glossy paper, portable ashtray from Magaluf, volcanic rock - on custom plinth with magnetic butterflies.

The Mesh:
IKEA IVAR dinner table set with chairs dyed with spirulina, aroma diffuser with Monster Energy Paradise, bluetooth speaker with custom soundtrack, custom box dyed with spirulina for natural wine, custom box dyed with spirulina for IKEA wine glasses, IKEA CYLINDER vases with water pearls and flowers from Aldi.

Text by

Caroline Ballegaard

The Cast:

Psyche: born (year undisclosed) to Greek parents with royal ties (according to the rumors). Those same whispers croon of a sight for sore eyes, and none seem to have dared to steal more than a glance at her. She was last seen, in tears, alone on a mountain peak; her current whereabouts are unknown.

Myself: The author.

Time: Today.

Place: The pleasure house of some god.

You might, as I, wonder about the choice of furniture. Interiors are questions of acquired, if not purely personal, taste—and who knows about the preferences of gods. There should be no kink shame, green is a lovely color with so many properties. Nature! Progress! Rebirth! No, I’m not tempted to mention that other obvious one, so human in nature (there it is again!).
The grass is always greener, and what is life without desire and its flipside. Like other things in this house not easily kept, it has a tendency to rub off.

So, I warn: Be careful with the green you see. Small environments that stick to me, sometimes leaving my fingers damp and sweet to touch with a tongue.
Temperature is of dire importance here; wind, weather, the will of the current, the rays of the sun. You stifle your soon to be burning passion for the lowest of mankind, staying still surrounded by cabinets of containment.

Think of them as tokens of your own. Let yourself sit and be served. In ancient holy books, I find prosperity and abundance in my search for nectar. It is a sacred gift, both wild and domesticated, always luxurious and sweet. Surely delight can be dangerous, I feel the temptation lurking at every corner to let myself go in favor of earthly pleasures.
What did he put in this wine?

Maybe I’ve changed my mind. I’m exhausted by the ruinous demands of our hearts. Can’t we flee as we did from the ash of the torches extinguished by your father’s weeping?
The need to fly in the face of any and every thing doesn’t necessarily mean freedom, though I heard you were a mortal lover and a serpent that bites with one or both eyes closed can look like the sweetest of beasts.

Dearest Psyche, have you found out how the monster isn’t hiding under your bed, though he still hides in the dark? Not only kind things come with wings, a plague does too. Alas, to be a human lover. Like holding matches to a forest fire, I imagine someone trying to catch you. At least he deems you worthy of hanging on the wall.
Did I forget to mention that Nabokov was a well-known collector of butterflies?

Lepidopterist, light of my life, fire of my burning blaze. No one told me to be careful with your hot wax, your drop of oil, and I adore you to distraction. A touch of skin by trembling lashes—might I, clinging, catch wings by proxy, if only for a second. He wants what will also mean the very death of me. Or the becoming something else and more.
Maybe the wild grass. For who says anything ends at dying. You can try to close your fist.

See, I told you I was a no-good human.

22nd – 24th October 2021
Opening Friday 22nd October
7 – 9 pm

Udstillingsstedet Q
Peder Skrams Gade 2
1050 Copenhagen K

Theodor Nymark

selected works
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films
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Det Pittoreske Bæst
(The Picturesque Beast)

37:26

Screenings

April — CPH DOX Official Selection - New Danish Film: Premiere @ Cinemateket Copenhagen, Denmark

May — BFA degree show @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Denmark

August — solo presentation and screening @ Brigade Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark

August — Make Friend Not Art: Underbellies @ Bundesallee 213-214 Berlin, Germany

August — New Other Odd screening #2 @ Cantina
Aarhus, Denmark

5th September — Screening @ Zolforosso
Venice, Italy

19th September — Screening @ Partara Gallery
Tbilisi, Georgia

26th September — Screening @ Kunsthal 44
Møn, Denmark

October — Online via Amulet Magasin
Copenhagen, Denmark

Drafts of Ecology/

PSYCHE INTERIOR

Text by

Caroline Ballegaard

Theodor Nymark

selected works text ︎ filmsinfo

Det Pittoreske Bæst (The Picturesque Beast)

37:26

Screenings

April — CPH DOX Official Selection - New Danish Film: Premiere @ Cinemateket Copenhagen, Denmark May — BFA degree show @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Denmark

August — solo presentation and screening @ Brigade Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark

August — Make Friend Not Art: Underbellies @ Bundesallee 213-214 Berlin, Germany

August — New Other Odd screening #2 @ Cantina Aarhus, Denmark

5th September — Screening @ Zolforosso Venice, Italy

19th September — Screening @ Partara Gallery Tbilisi, Georgia

26th September — Screening @ Kunsthal 44 Møn, Denmark

October — Online via Amulet Magasin Copenhagen, Denmark

Drafts of Ecology/

PSYCHE INTERIOR

Text by

Caroline Ballegaard

selected works
text
︎
films
info

Det Pittoreske Bæst
(The Picturesque Beast)

April — CPH DOX Official Selection - New Danish Film: Premiere @ Cinemateket Copenhagen, Denmark

May — BFA degree show @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Denmark

August — New Other Odd screening #2 @ Cantina
Aarhus, Denmark

5th September — Screening @ Zolforosso
Venice, Italy

19th September — Screening @ Partara Gallery
Tbilisi, Georgia

26th September — Screening @ Kunsthal 44
Møn, Denmark

October — Online via Amulet Magasin
Copenhagen, Denmark