In the imagined world of the installation, this four-wheeled structure became a kind of prosthetic body for the neuropreserved patients (the treatment where only the head is frozen). In the first exhibition at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon viewers walked through the exhibition space on industrial metal grates that overlooked the singing sculptures with their wheels immersed in water, standing in a perfect line, like products in a warehouse. This uniformity is a nod to human life as a product, a non-refundable package. The water illustrates that the ice has melted, but also conjures a curiously wet, biological picture, a bizarre parallel to the amniotic fluid in which we all start our lives.

Do you believe in technology as a way to provide a better future for the world?

I believe that technology is an enabler or a catalyst, but it entirely depends on how we use these tools and how we learn from the tools we already created. Throughout history, we have developed with and because of our technologies, one example is the control of fire which was a groundbreaking technological evolution for human civilisation. Not only did we mould this technology, but it also moulded us. Literally, through cooking our food, we grew bigger brains. But it also turned out that some of the technologies we developed through the discovery of fire were horrible for our planet, like coal-fired power stations. From a future standpoint, I’m sure we will look back at now and wonder why humans and cars lived so close together for example, or why a socially conscious species would let their young engage in social media etc. What is evident in 2022 is that we can’t agree on what could make the world better, and digital technology is such a contradictory blessing. In Denmark I have the privilege of a digital ID that allows me to register a birth, loan a book or access all my medical records, but this same technology in other countries would be met with rightful suspicion. The combination of capitalism and modern technology seems like a dangerous cocktail sometimes, my ‘better future’ certainly is not the same as Bezos’. Ultimately technology serves many of us very well, but it also serves the superstructure that props up oppression and inequality.  

What are you working on at the moment?

I’m lucky to be involved in two collaborative projects with artists I really love. In April, Marie Munk and I are exhibiting ‘Divine Desires’ at Politiken Forhal in Copenhagen. Marie and I made our first collaborative piece ‘Synthetic Seduction’ back in 2018, it was a great experience and has since traveled all over, so I am excited to be back at the drawing board for something new. In May, I’m doing a duo show with Richie Culver at Tick Tack in Antwerpen. We have never worked together before, but I have admired his work for ages, and it’s fun to be planning out a show together and figuring out how to bring our practice into the same space. Life is busy but I am grateful for that.