Hanna Ljungh – The Thinnest Layer

This fall Marabouparken konsthall is very happy to present the artist Hanna Ljungh’s largest solo exhibition to date.

Hanna Ljungh devotes herself to an artistic examination of the matter we describe as stone, ground, earth, land and mountains. Her artistic practice often explores the relation between the organic and inorganic, between human and nature. This includes thoughts on the Anthropocene, distribution of resources and what we as humans outmost exists of. Hanna Ljungh’s art has both a micro perspective on the human body and the body of society and a larger macro perspective on our planet and out towards space and infinity.

In 2016 her Swedish and international breakthrough came with her almost six hours long film I am mountain, to measure impermanence in which she in one long take from Kebnekaise’s northern peak filmed the melting southern peak. Hanna Ljungh works with video, photo, sculpture and installations where she reevaluates the relation between what we see as human and non-human existence.

_DSF8607 — Curiosity Cabinet (iron 115 kg): You, me rock, mountain – commodities of the quantified universe (Kiruna), 2019

_DSF8615 — The Health Spring: DIY Petalite Pegmatite Lithium Generator –Erosion Sculpture, 2022

In her series of artworks Curiosity cabinets she looks closer at the minerals that are extracted from the earth but which are also present in our bodies. In the glass cases we won’t find the multitude of remarkable objects we usually link to curiosity cabinets. Instead they exhibit the amount of minerals such as iron, sulfur and carbon found in our bodies and thus connects the eager pursuit to quantify our wellbeing from mineral content to the exactitude of the mining industry that deplete the earths resources.

At Marabouparken Ljungh will undertake the rooms spatially in both ascending and descending directions with artistic mediums as video, sculpture, installations, drawings and more. The exhibition will also feature new and never previously shown art works.

_DSF8572 — I am mountain, yo measure impermanence. Film HD, 5 tim 32 min. Tillhör Region Skånes konstsamling.

_DSF8353 — I am mountain – measurements, 2016. Ljudverk med tillhörande handgjord seismograf, 5 tim 32 min.

_DSF8396 — Lithic Rest, vessel, Shelter, Future, Past –Infant bed, 2022

Events

Hanna Ljungh: Poetry readings