Marie Lund & Rosalind Nashashibi: O Rose

O Rose is a collective exhibition, which grew out of a collegial relation and friendship between Danish sculptor Marie Lund and British-Palestinian filmmaker and painter Rosalind Nashashibi. The two artists work in different media and with different aesthetics. But there turns out to be methodological overlaps in the way they conceive their works and in the way their works open up to and absorb the lived life in which they are created.

The conversation between the two artists takes its starting point in Rosalind Nashashibi’s film Denim Sky. In this domestic sci-fi film, Rosalind Nashashibi explores ways of forming a community around her single parent family through, amongst other means, journeys into space and non-linear time. With this film in mind, Marie Lund created a new series of sculptures, Daily, which, through repetition and variations, similarly collapses the expectation of a linear time. Made from residual materials, paper pulp and rubber granules, the sculptures – in their own way – also speak of fragility and strength.

In the new film The Invisible Worm, made for the exhibition, Rosalind Nashashibi explores the multiple personas and roles of the artist. Visual artist and co-writer on the film, Elena Narbutaitė, who is also one of the main characters in Denim Sky, appears in the film, together with Marie Lund, Rosalind Nashashibi, her son Pietro, a male model and a cat, each embodying artist and muse. The exhibition’s title refers to William Blake’s mystical poem The Sick Rose, 1794, which also guides the film’s poetic and inscrutable structure. Both Marie Lund’s and Rosalind Nashashibi’s studios appear in the film, as do Den Fries’ galleries.