Arche­type

Description

Under the name of Studio ThinkingHand, Rhoda Ting and Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen primarily work with sculptures and installation art where, for example, fungi, bacterial cultures, or other microorganisms often help create the work over time.

Archetype consists of five circular light boxes, in which fungi and microbes have been allowed to develop and create organic images in predetermined rhizomatic patterns. Inspiration for the patterns derives from the fungi’s subterranean network of hyphae, the archetype of other rhizomatic patterns, known, for example, from nerve cells in the brain (astrocytes), the cosmic web in the universe, and the intricate Internet network.
The light boxes on the wall are linked in a network of burnished steel, lighting up and accentuating the electric impulses used by fungi for communication – the shape of the sculpture itself is rhizomatic just like the fungal subterranean network.

Blacksmith and production: Louis-Jensen Metalværksted
LED: Studio Temporal
CNC-milling: Beta Factory

About the decorative project

Nørreportkvarteret som kunstdestination – værker af unge danske samtidskunstnere (the Nørrebro District as Art Destination – works by young Danish contemporary artists) is developed by Aabenraa Municipality in collaboration with Creator Projects, community ambassadors and the Aabenraa Municipal Visual Arts Committee. The project is backed financially by: the Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, BHJ Fonden, and the Aabenraa Municipal Visual Arts Committee.

The full list of artists who have contributed to the project comprises Rune Bosse, Silas Inoue, Oskar Koliander, Mathias & Mathias, Helene Nymann, Torben Ribe, and Studio ThinkingHand. The works are the property of Aabenraa Municipality.