The Fence
Motherload
The foreground and background became one, and I was evenly distributed throughout
A gate to an orchard in the forest. Trees and shrubs that do not belong here are meant to grow here. The fence is reminiscent of a womb, a dwelling, or a boundary in the landscape that keeps some things in and others out. Here, the contradictions of motherhood are laid bare—care and resistance come together in a single bodily architecture.
The Artists
Anna Margrethe Pedersen is a graduate of Camberwell College of Art in London. She is a visual artist and co-founder of the artist collective and exhibition space YEARS. In addition, she is a program coordinator and full-time instructor in the Art & Design program at the Talent Academy in Holstebro.
In 2018, she curated the exhibition *Motherload* at Deep Forest Art Land together with artist Ditte Soria, where she also participated with a work of her own.
Ditte Soria is a visual artist who graduated from the Funen Art Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She lives and works on the island of Møn. In her works, Soria explores the body, landscape, and power, as well as what constitutes the self. She is concerned with female experience as a historical, cultural, and bodily condition, in which the will becomes a flexible entity, loosely bound and shaped through communities. In long-term series, she explores gendered power dynamics and uses artistic practice as a means of asserting a self in its own right. She is a co-founder of the artist collective YEARS and, together with Anna Margrethe Pedersen, has created Motherload, in which she participates as both an artist and a curator.
Photo: Sofie Amalie Klougart
Merete Vyff Slyngborg is a visual artist who graduated from the Funen Art Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She lives and works on the island of Møn. In addition to her own artistic practice, she is a co-founder of the artist collective YEARS. Vyff works with mixed media and explores visual language and representation. By juxtaposing objects that relate fleeting trends to classical art-historical references, she examines the significance of gender and culture in how we value and interpret objects in our society.
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