AFSTØBT UDVEKSLING (ENCASED EXCHANGE)
Artwork created and exhibited at “Yours, Sincerely” at HUS8000 / iovermorgen, Aarhus.
A group exhibition and publication by nine artists, developed through ongoing exchanges across distance. The project explores how ideas are generated, transformed, and circulated within collective processes.
Publication funded by Knud Højgaards
Fond.
2026
Credit: Fie Hansigne Rude Petersen
Credit: Fie Hansigne Rude Petersen
Credit: Fie Hansigne Rude Petersen
Credit: Fie Hansigne Rude Petersen
email correspondence. The artwork is a process of shared thinking, translation,
and authorship across distance. What unfolds through digital exchange, the ideas,
fragments, and evolving propositions, is in the artwork translated into a spatial and
material composition that holds traces of its own becoming.
At the center of the work is the gesture of encasement, the transformation of
something temporal and immaterial into a preserved form. Drawing on the logic
of amber as a medium that suspends life mid-process, the work reflects on how
communication and collaboration leave behind residues. The email exchange that
shaped the work becomes a kind of technofossil; it is an imprint of collective thought
embedded within material form. This idea is also visible through the inclusion of
a small piece of real amber, collected in the artist’s childhood, in which an
insect is visibly trapped.
The cast elements of the artwork introduce a temporal disjunction as an attempt
to meet deep geological time, personal memory, and contemporary digital interaction.
The amber functions both as a reference and links the intimate biography with
broader questions of preservation, trace, and futurity.
By translating digital correspondence into a physical arrangement, Encased Exchange
touches on a future archaeology in which today’s modes of communication persist
as material remains. Being both synthetic and organic, yet personal and collective