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2009
Iron tubes, nylon straps, talc
300 x 360 cm
The tensegrity construction principle connects to Buckminster Fullers idea of an utopian floating city within a lightweight construction ”bubble”. A city without a context, it travels with only ropes as anchors, like a circus world, rotating around its own axis. The circus tent is a system of pull and support, that - like the bodies clinging to the iron - seems to become gravity-free.
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2009
Rope, foam, tape, wood
Length trapèze : 110 cm, length rope: 600cm
Like lovers, two trapezes are hanging tangled into one another above the heads of the audience. Knotted together in ways that could scarcely be untangled and frozen in a dynamic swing, the trapezes in this installation leave the viewer asking whether this might have been the result of a very daring stunt, an inexperienced acrobat or an acrobatic number gone wrong. The moment depicted, between a connectedness that is not really possible and an inherent danger, accounts for this special fascination of this simple installation.
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2009
PE-tube, coloured tape
Ø ca. 150 cm (variable)
Because visitors have to climb through a Hula-Hoop jammed into the door frame of the entrance, they not only enter the circus ring as viewers but also as participants.
Biography
* 1982 in Oslo
2009 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Projects
—2009
architect, 2+1 Idebuerau, Copenhagen
concept, architecture, “Jeppe Hein - Sense City”
grant Danish Art Foundation
3. Prize Politiken Talent Prize
graduation winner of Vola-Prize, best diploma project
—2008
teacher Easa summerschool, Ireland
—2007
student architect, Studio Jeppe Hein, Berlin
teacher Easa summerschool, Greece
student architect, Malarchitecture, Oslo
—2006
student architect, Mapt, Copenhagen
Exhibitions
—2010
City Bondage, Jægersborggade gallery, Copenhagen
—2009
Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling, Copenhagen
Diploma exhibition, Copenhagen
—2002-2009
various school exhibitions
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