Ariel
Albert Contemporary CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025

In objects that mirror our contemporary urban landscape, ARIEL thematizes the monstrous development of civilization and humanity's efforts to reconcile inner life with the outside world.

ARIEL is a turbulent stream, full of fragments of human and civilizational wreckage: an abandoned safe containing antique Roman silver coins, a human-like gesticulating robot arm displayed on a large advertising LED screen, barbed wire cast in bronze, a sketch of a medieval German law book, a severed finger in a beer bottle, mouth blown crack pipes, and two found, partially restored and rearranged plaster casts, presumably from the 1930s or 1940s. These are objects and images with no immediate connection, drifting by in the same frantic stream, just like in the endless image feed of social media.    


Photo: Filip Gielda