Take your TIME

Welcome to this exhibition – precisely now. Please enter Take your TIME, an anachronistic cabinet of curiosities. Let me show you an eccentric selection of artworks and artefacts that in various ways, and in dialogue with each other, may tell us something about the phenomenon of time.

When these haniwa, Japanese ceremonial figurines made 2000 years ago to celebrate fertility, meet jewellery artist Nanna Melland’s piece 687 Years (2008) – a necklace made of hundreds of copper IUD’s (prevention spirals) – stories about lived lives, interrupted timelines, pain, love and the body as a time-site, are thrown out for us to ponder.

Things Change (2015) by Maria Bang Espersen, a hand blown glass vase encapsulating a sharp stone in the thin glass wall, reminds the viewer about future’s uncertainty. The material tension is constantly under pressure, and cracks will gradually appear – or the object will suddenly explode into hundreds of shards. No one knows when. The work is durational, and a piece of irony in a museum collection. Then have a look at these bracelets made of human hair (1850’s), perhaps from a lost loved one, just to make them travel in time with you.