20 metres of unbleached sheet canvas - part II (2023)
“20 meters of unbleached sheet canvas - part II” is a site-specific installation made for the exhibition venue OBJEKT by Iben West and Katrine Borup. The installation consists partly of a fabric work and partly of photo documentation of a workshop on Djursland in the spring of 2023 with a focus on FABRIC, NATURE and BODY. The exhibition was part of the Juxtapose Artfair in Aarhus, late summer 2023 and initiated by HINT project - a collaboration between Sanne Ransby and Mariko Wada with a focus on the dissemination of craft and material-based art.
In the fall of 2019, Iben and Katrine went to Norway with 20 meters of double-wide unbleached sheet canvas. As part of Projectroom-hveem, they participated in a one-week residency with the theme SPACE AND PLACE, where they let the sheet canvas meet the site and photo-documented their investigations (see PROJECTROOM-HVEEM (2019)).
Projectroom-hveem was the starting point for them to continue working separately with unbleached sheet canvas, Katrine in the exhibition project STOF TIL EFTERTANKE and Iben in BLIND SPOTS, KANVAS and ODD SIZE BLOCK PRINT (IbenWest.dk).
In May 2023 they met again for a week-long workshop in Gjerrild on Djursland with 20 meters of double-wide unbleached sheet canvas. This time with ambitions to expand the studies with another element: THE BODY. But also with the awareness that the studies should result in a concrete installation in the rather complex exhibition space OBJECT.
The analyses of the exhibition space and the ideas for different spatial approaches were important for the exercises in the forest on Djursland, but the exercises in the forest were also important for the development of the final (fabric) installation.