MUTE SKINS: BESTSELLER50 COMMISSION
2025
Commission for Bestseller’s 50 year celebration festival at Egeskov Slot. June 2025.
We live in an age obsessed with the new. Innovation is praised, disruption is funded, and invention is often mistaken for progress. In the midst of this noise, we forget the quiet power of what already exists.
To preserve is not to look backward –it’s to look carefully. It’s to recognize the value of forms shaped by time, of materials weathered into wisdom, of knowledge carried in bodies, gestures, and places. Preservation is not about freezing the past –it is about carrying it with care into the present. Preservation is a form of resistance –against speed, against waste, against erasure. It asks for slowness, for humility, and for responsibility. It insists that meaning is not always made by invention, but revealed through maintenance –through listening, and through touch. In a culture of excess, preservation becomes a radical act. It reorients value. It favors depth over expansion, memory over spectacle, relation over ownership.
This is a call to create with care –to build with what is already present, to deepen rather than replace, to trace rather than erase.
Charcoal on natural linen
Oak bar
200 x 150 cm
2025