Malene Hartmann Rasmussen

If I Had A Heart I Could Love You




2011

Royal College of ArtKensington Gore
South Kensington
London SW7 2EU
United Kingdom



Installation made for the Master of Arts degree show at Royal College of Art in 2011.

About:
In this project made for the Royal College of Art SHOW 2011 I work with how we perceive the world, twisting and changing the perception of the space to create an eerie surreal and otherworldly feeling. The setting is a wooden hut as we know it from the folk tales of Brothers Grimm. The viewer is intruding this reality shifting dark place. It is a fake wooden hut, a piece of theater-like scenery made from drawn wooden planks, the “Flintstones” aesthetic and Technicolor quality of the ceramics underlines the hyper real dreamlike feeling.
In the hut there is a fireplace, the burning logs look like hearts, but the hearts look like real hearts and the branches sticking out of them resembles blood filled arteries and veins. The hut is in a forest or maybe the hut is the forest; the wooden planks are sprouting and coming to life, or maybe they were alive and someone is cutting them down? This uncanny and dark fairytale is fragmented, like in a crime story the clues are scattered around, the viewer is the detective trying to make sense of it all.

Size: height: 200 cm. width: 200 cm. depth: 130 cm. (installation)
Materials: ceramics, MDF, polyester fiber, pins, embroidery, digital print, objet trouvé