Charlottenborg Live

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening

17.00 − 19.00 Book launch and performance: Maria Zahle, The Toe The Horse The Sister

18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!

19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine

19.45-20.05 Author meeting: Rachel Röst, Grundvold

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

The Toe The Horse The Sister is a new book of visual poetry by artist Maria Zahle. This collection of 25 poems reflects on her life as an artist, mother, sister, daughter and lover. Many of the poems describe small but vivid events retold and refracted through language. The book is an exploration of the ways in which experience and memory collide, fragment, and overlap within our consciousness. The poetry shape-shifts between words and visual marks: insistent groupings of punctuation, drawn shapes and repeating patterns. Each page is a tactile space, with language and image vibrating in tension with each other. The poetry’s dance between lived experience and formal experimentation is described through memories and intimate speculations.

“The Toe The Horse The Sister is to me an art object in the shape of a book. It is a sculpture that you can touch and take home with you” says Maria Zahle

At Charlottenborg Kunsthal Maria Zahle will read and sing the poems from The Toe The Horse The Sister. The performance will be accompanied by keyboard and stripes of colour. The audience will get a chance to experience the poems live and purchase a limited edition book.

Maria Zahle is an artist based in Copenhagen. The Toe The Horse The Sister is published by Akerman Daly, London. Zahle’s first book of poetry, 8 Poems, was published by AkermanDaly in 2017. Maria Zahle’s solo exhibition No Stranger or Lover to Me will open at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm in March 2022. Maria Zahle is represented by Arcade, London/Bruxelles.