"I work with sculpture because it relates to what is physically possible, yet is able to contain complete opposites - like humans. A trap is commonly a device used to capture and perhaps kill an animal. It is used to capture something you wish to possess, get rid of, or have the power over. Traps are ridiculous, shrewd, hideous, and necessary. The sculptures in the exhibition are all catalysts for potential actions or activities. The sculptures are made out of cotton, wool, silk, and transparent glass. Their surfaces are permeable and open to give the user the opportunity to become a part of the different structures. The meaning of a sentence can be removed by repeating the sentence over and over. Is it similarly possible to remove the meaning of an action by repeating it again and again? Or is each action a new one? The sculptures can be seen as dramas. They have an outset and a goal. They do something. The drawing 'A trap for my mother’s husband – notes from a conversation with my father' comes from the desire to build a trap for my mother’s husband because I do not see any other way to capture him, or to alter his position. I asked my father, who is an engineer, to help me with this, and the work is, as the title says, the drawn notes we used to understand each other."
- Kirstine Aarkrog