ART25-007

MUTE SKINS: BESTSELLER50 ANNIVERSARY PAINTING

ART

2025



Nearness was created as a 50-year anniversary piece for Bestseller and is part of my ongoing series Muteskins. The works register physical—almost bodily—contact between canvas and surroundings through imprints of surfaces. They function as testimonies to the absence of a place that, through the artist’s mediation, has left its trace.

The work takes its point of departure in the surfaces surrounding Bestseller’s headquarters in Brande—the company’s original base, which over 50 years has grown into a small town. Through frottage, characteristic textures are mapped: the strict grid of paving stones and the asphalt’s random, repaired cracks. Each line carries traces of the process, and the work emerges organically from hundreds of small encounters between hand, canvas, and surface—forming an image of both order and deviation, structure and rupture.

Nearness asks where presence actually arises: in the uniform or the irregular, in the structure or the crack? Perhaps it exists precisely in the tension between order and chaos—in a textile acting as a membrane, a skin, absorbing the rhythms of a place without fixing them into a single narrative. Charcoal on natural linen
Oak bar
320 x 320 cm
2025
Flyer design by Bestseller


Photos (1 & 2) by Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen


Location: Bestseller Brande



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