Rose Eken, Rose, 2024. Patinated bronze
Courtesy of the artist, V1 Gallery and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
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About The Work
For CHART in Tivoli 2024 V1 Gallery is pleased to present a group of sculptures by Rose Eken (b. 1976). In the context of Tivoli Garden, Eken’s bronze sculptures are juxtaposed with the living garden as their dark counterparts. Eken’s upward-spiraling plants defy expectations, simultaneously mourning and celebrating humanity’s fractured connection with the earth. Eken’s plants strain between matter and form. Deadly nightshade, entangled roses, and dying sunflowers. So appealing in their labored intent to defy gravity, but all of them were deadly poisonous or slowly decaying.
Eken’s work often mines the world of the everyday, while simultaneously veering into a parallel world of darkness and broken connections. The works are a testament to grief and the disenchantment of Modernity in an era of ecological crisis. The transgressive identification with despair, desolation, and death provides a paradoxically generative refuge for outsiders. Rendered in bronze, her works stand as talismans and reminders of our deteriorating relationship with the earth.
Rose Eken, Nest of Roses, 2022-2024. Patinated bronze
Courtesy of the artist, V1 Gallery and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Rose Eken, Belladonna, 2022. Patinated bronze
Courtesy of the artist, V1 Gallery and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Rose Eken, Raven, 2022. Bronze
Courtesy of the artist, V1 Gallery and CHART in Tivoli 2024. Photo by Jan Søndergaard
Portrait of Rose Eken
Courtesy of the artist and V1 Gallery. Photo by Petra Kleis
About The Artist
Rose Eken, (b. 1976, DK) holds an MA from Royal College of Art, London. Her major exhibitions include And the Forests Dream Eternally, V1 Gallery, Denmark; Eros Unlimited, Eighteen, Copenhagen, DK; Billboard Istanbul, TR; In Residence, MOCA Tucson, Arizona, US; Afterbeat, Horsens Art Museum, DK, and Remain in Light, The Hole, NY, US. Her work has been permanently acquired by ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Horsens Art Museum, The New Carlsberg Foundation, and The Danish Art Foundation for Visual Arts. Eken lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rose Eken is represented by V1 Gallery.
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