Charlottenborg Salon
What is lost when we turn the living into a thing? This evening takes its starting point in Amalie Smith’s exhibition Levende (Living), in which ceramics, textiles and everyday objects become human-like figures, and explores the living as a process that comes into being, changes and connects.
How does something begin as a thing and end up as living? This question recurs both in visual artist and author Amalie Smith’s exhibition Levende, where ceramics, textiles and everyday objects are transformed into human-like figures, and in author Majse Aymo-Boot’s book Tingene (The Things), which takes the material as its starting point for speaking about all that is living and lived.
On Thursday 19 November, 5–6.30 pm, we open the doors to Charlottenborg Salon, a conversation about the living as a process rather than a thing: something that comes into being, changes and connects, rather than something that can be fixed in place and pinned down. Artist and author Amalie Smith, author and PhD in philosophy Morten Grønborg, and author Majse Aymo-Boot will explore together what is lost when we insist on making the living a stable, bounded thing, and what art and literature can offer in response to that movement.
Is there a connection between power and the desire to turn the living into things we can hold on to? And can art and literature insist on that which escapes, as a form of resistance?
About Charlottenborg Salon:
Charlottenborg Salon is Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s conversation format, in which art serves as a starting point for conversations about our time. Through encounters between artists, researchers, cultural figures and audiences, we create a space for new perspectives and shared reflection.
