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In her first institutional solo exhibition, Kaja Lahoda turns the walls of Tranen’s exhibition space inside out. Her works are not just hanging on the wall. What she presents within the walls of the building points to what is inside the walls of the building. Lahoda is not concerned with bricks, concrete, wood and plasterboard. It is the stone wool hiding behind them that she examines, cuts, moulds and works with. In the stone-dead material, figures emerge to the surface. In Within The Wall, the insulation, which no one usually takes notice of, comes to the fore, and the lifeless material is animated by spirits and all kinds of bugs. The wall takes on a life of its own.
Stone wool, patented in 19th century USA and today synonymous with Danish Rockwool, is used for insulation. The material has made people’s cosy homes and buildings even warmer and drier. But as Lahoda notes, insulation has also further isolated man from his surroundings. The walls that draw a line...More
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In her first institutional solo exhibition, Kaja Lahoda turns the walls of Tranen’s exhibition space inside out. Her works are not just hanging on the wall. What she presents within the walls of the building points to what is inside the walls of the building. Lahoda is not concerned with bricks, concrete, wood and plasterboard. It is the stone wool hiding behind them that she examines, cuts, moulds and works with. In the stone-dead material, figures emerge to the surface. In Within The Wall, the insulation, which no one usually takes notice of, comes to the fore, and the lifeless material is animated by spirits and all kinds of bugs. The wall takes on a life of its own.
Stone wool, patented in 19th century USA and today synonymous with Danish Rockwool, is used for insulation. The material has made people’s cosy homes and buildings even warmer and drier. But as Lahoda notes, insulation has also further isolated man from his surroundings. The walls that draw a line...More
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