Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard – Marie Kirkegaard

Born 1985 in Denmark, currently lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated MFA in 2013 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

When Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard is to tell about her own work, she often turns to compare them to the volatile state of the body when you’ve just woken up and remember pieces of a dream; an outline, a mood, a desire or a sorrow.

In his work, Lasgaard processes the recognizable and the unrecognizable, the intangible and the diffuse, in a quest to create a connection between the memories that go back to childhood and the physical objects that contain a strong power of association.

Whether it is text, painting or sculpture in paper, plaster and textile, Lasgaard wants to promote a softness, a vulnerability and a slowness on a personal and a collective level that contrasts society’s idealization of the productive.

Lasgaard is preoccupied with the body as a container for a mental state of mind and the inherent language of the materials, and their coherence with the language of emotional life. Both the personal and the collective memory are awakened by the materials and the body, and the bodily experience is used as a springboard for ideas, feelings and reflections.

In her study of the possibilities of cognition in the tactile, she often takes as her point of departure the near, the mundane. To open her works up to the world, Lasgaard works to create surfaces that evoke a desire to touch and smell them. It creates a sensual and physical connection to those who come in contact with the works.

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Selected projects and exhibitions