Welcome to the dark side

Why live if you then have to die? This is what Danish artist Nikoline Liv Andersen seems to ask in her exhibition at the Horsens Museum, which combines Baroque elegance, the three wise monkeys and the myth of Sisyphus.
The exhibition at the Horsens Kunstmuseum presents two new installations by this Danish fashion designer, “Slowly Seeping Through My Hands” and “The Dance of the Deaf and the Dumb Eye”, along with a selection of past creations.

A graduate of the Danish Design School in 2006, Nikoline works on that fine line that separates fashion and art and is motivated to push the boundaries of what is wearable into a territory free of compromises.

Her creations emerge from a fantastic and yet dangerous world, where existence seems to be threatened.

In her installations we see monkeys perched on wigs à la Marie Antoniette, a reference to today’s consumers, who choose to see, hear and speak no evil.

Like the court of Louis XVI, whose excesses led to the French Revolution.
The large sphere of woven bodies, as if in a silent dance, also tells a similar story, but on a larger scale: humanity in the vain attempt of lulling itself towards death.

But in the decadence of these images there is a glimmer of hope that illuminates the installations. A new key to the reading, a sense of life forgotten that perhaps hides in the newly found sense of creating and consuming.


























Photos via nikolinelivandersen.dk