Luna Scales

Experience the film Minder ved berøring by Luna Scales in the Kunsthal’s cinema.

The video work Minder ved berøring takes its point of departure from childhood memories linked to hospital visits and medical examinations, a recurring theme in Luna Scales’ practice, which is inspired by ableism and an ideological exploration of the relationship between doctor and patient, both from a personal and a larger cultural historical perspective.

In the film, Scales has interviewed four women, all of whom have a congenital muscular or neurological disease. Which is why the four women have been closely followed by doctors throughout their lives. In her interviews, Scales has been particularly concerned with creating the language that is used to describe a life condition in which the world is preoccupied with your body. This has resulted in a story that goes beyond the examination room itself, and which touches on grief and vulnerability in the family, confrontational meetings with other children and attempts to live on the same terms as others.

The work is screened in collaboration with Arden Asbæk Galleri in connection with the artist’s solo exhibition Do no Harm (3.11-9.12) 2023 and is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse.

The film lasts approx. 18 minutes and loops during the Kunsthal’s opening hours unless there are events.

The Kunsthal’s cinema is on the first floor and is accessible for wheelchair users, as there is a lift.

Biography
Luna Scales (b. 1992) graduated as a visual artist from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2020. Scales’ works have been exhibited at several group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and in 2019, she had a solo exhibition at Bonnierne Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. Her artistic practice is primarily video, through which she works with the medical language and the body. She explores both the poetic dimension of diagnostics and the concrete encounter as well as the relationship between doctor and patient to create a language that reaches beyond the objective science of the medical field.