FINE DYING
2022-23MISSCHIEFS
by Fredrik Dölling
FINE DYING is an exhibition and a collection of ceremonial handmade objects inspired by the symbolic murder of Virginia Woolf's phantom in 'Professions for Women'.
In this text, the author metaphorically kills her phantom to liberate herself and create freely as a woman.
For this mischievous Victorian dinner party in disrepair i have created two objects: TORCH and GOBLETs.
TORCH - a series of ritualistic sculptures that marked the beginning and end of the
FINE DYING ceremony. A ceremony that celebrates the necessary death of female prejudice, and invites us to re-define the terms of our individual and collective experience. Pointing to Virginia Woolf´s story, shells trap and kill invaders that enter their interior by creating a pearl - “Had I not killed her, she would have killed me” (Woolf). The project arrives from an interest in the ephemerality of rituals and questioning how objects can help mark and represent these.
TORCH
Dimensions: 135 x Ø 35 CM - (standard candle fit)
Materials: Metal, Scallop shell, Metal leaf, paint
FINE DYING CANDLE - Numbered Limited Edition
- Collab with LJusmakeriet
Dimensions: 30 x Ø 4 CM
Materials: Stearin wax, silver beeswax foil
AVAILABLE FOR SALE
GOBLET GOBLET - a series of experimental sculptures grown from mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus.-
The living objects highlight natural systems of regeneration and engage with Virginia Woolf´s phantom by linking to eco-feminism to critically examine the connection between the degradation of nature and the oppression of women. *The term was coined by the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in her book ‘Le Féminisme ou la Mort’ - ‘Feminism or death’ (1973).
by Vicent Ars
by Daniel Camerini, and some by myself.
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