SWALLOWING A PILL TO
DISSOLVE THE CAPSULE
Installed at Rundgang 2025 at Det Jyske Kunstakademi
2025
- Swallowing a Pill to Dissolve the Capsule is an installation comprised primarily of
- paper. At its center hangs a giant document, presented in a classic word format.
- The text on the document is written in academic language and framing, yet it
- doesn’t make sense. Surrounding the document are dozens of printed PDF files.
- While their titles, authors, and publication details are visible, the body text of each
- file has been redacted with a thick black marker.
- Everything in the piece feels like a form of mimicry and mockery of a
- discipline. The texts focus on radical, or rather, new ways of exhibiting,
- yet they all adhere to an academic style of writing. They use the
- same language as the central document, making their arguments for
- the exhibition space and the exhibiting artist.
- The work nods to conversations about censorship, schooling, curricula within
- the arts, and the role of the art student as an exhibitor. It becomes a cosplaying
- entity, as the piece was presented in connection with a Rundgang exhibition at Det
- Jyske Kunstakademi. It pretends to create a fake chaos of documents, reproducing
- the academic structures that have become apparent in many art academies. At
- the same time, it questions their authenticity and their intentions for the evolution
- of art education..