læs bogen her - Den Frie

KJS: Mette, you have also painted the physical space. You
are occupying the space or transforming the space. You really
work with processes and I don’t know if this is a second way of
of this building and its space.
MW: This space was originally a sign of freedom for young
artists, and for me being here and exhibiting here is very
special, because there is a lot of tradition connected to this
place. It is a free space. I chose to use some of the colours as
Willumsen decided them to be, or almost, because I took one
of the colours and moved it to another room. So I actually did
exactly what I wanted to do with them, as I was playing with
history and memory.
JH: I think it is very reducing to talk about your work as
natural part of the exhibition, because we have no canvases
hanging on the wall and together this creates an illusionary
space.
MHB: But Mette, do you see your work as abstract paintings,
including the painted walls and the patchwork pieces?
MW: I think I use the signs of abstract painting. But sometimes
I think of my paintings as abstract works.
Helen Thorborg (HT): How do you work? Where do you start?
MW: I make this grid and divide it into halves and thirds and
develop. Maybe the system disappears when I start working and
sometimes you see it. I like the idea of my works as columns,
something that carries the systems and makes you feel safe.
MD: I think the “body” has a great presence in your works.
means of rhythm. Nothing is really straight in these lines and
grids, they are vibrating.
TB:
in relation to abstract painting. I think that even desires are
structured. Everything is always structured by something. It
what many people might think. Our actions and thoughts are
not necessarily intuitive, we do not necessarily have a core
from which we develop.
MHB: Can I ask for something? Big parts of this talk have
concerned what the critics didn’t get. So now I would like you,
who thinks it is clear what the exhibition is about, to explain
what I obviously didn’t get.
MD: I don’t have a clear-cut explanation, but I have a sense of
something going on in the show. I do not necessarily see the
running through the show where motifs are stitched together
only to be torn apart, again and again. This gesture that adds
and subtracts - tears and reassembles recurs throughout all the
this double movement interesting.
TB: You can also recognize the material and its origin. And
on some of the works you have letters which provide a new
element to the works of art.
DH: Mette, in an interview you have said that the material is
the gender and the work is the body. What I am aiming at is
a transsexual/transgender thematic that I see played out in
a Body” though. Who is the “we” and why do we have a body,
why aren’t we a body? Does “aone body”?
MW:
a Body” for me symbolizes all the relations of life, and how
general structures and norms are considered personal. But for
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