{"id":4451,"date":"2025-01-27T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/?page_id=4451"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:37:16","slug":"camilla-steinum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/year-2025\/camilla-steinum\/","title":{"rendered":"Camilla Steinum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Camilla Steinum\u2019s exhibition at Kunsthal Thy explores the boundaries between the\ninner and outer body, their transitions, and how they are perceived. Large spheres hang\nfrom the ceiling and beams of the old barn, strung together on ropes that resemble pearl\nnecklaces, while oversized ears on the walls hint at a bodily presence. Both elements\nare made from toilet paper mixed with wallpaper paste - a material that already\nsuggests a connection between the everyday and the intimate.<\/p>

Art exhibitions often aim to captivate the eye while keeping the viewers' bodies at a\ndistance, even disciplining them through prohibitions against touch. The artwork\nbecomes an object of observation, and the viewer a seeing subject. A bodily reaction is\nonly expected from the observing subject if the art object triggers an auratic resonance\n- right? Steinum\u2019s work Between Uncertainties guides visitors' movements in the\nexhibition space by structuring it. Yet, she breaks with the convention of distancing the\nart object from the viewer-subject:<\/p>

The spheres and ears respond to the presence of visitors by lighting up - unpredictably,\neach with its own rhythm that reacts to movement and sound in the room. The\ncoloration of the ropes recalls the changing hues of bruises during the healing process -\nfrom blue-green to yellow-green to brown-yellow. The shape of the spheres evokes\nassociations with anal beads, objects that connect the inner body with its exterior.\nDisgust, shudder, or shame that such objects may provoke are not natural, but\nculturally learned reactions.<\/p>

The choice of materials - toilet paper and wallpaper paste - points to a cultural and\nhistorical reflection on purity and impurity. In ancient Egypt, the Scarabaeus Sacer\n(Sacred Scarab), which lays its eggs in dung and forms balls from it, was considered a\nsymbol of divine creation. The god Khepri, depicted with a scarab head, embodied the\ncyclical power of nature. Dung was not seen as impure, but as a life-giving element. In\ncontrast, humorism in the Middle Ages drew a strict line between the inside and\noutside of the body. The 19th-century sanitary movement finally established feces as a\ncause of disease, further deepening the divide between \u201cclean\u201d and \u201cunclean.\u201d\nSteinum\u2019s work challenges this dichotomy and invites viewers to question their cultural\nconditioning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Camilla Steinum (b. 1986, Oslo) lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. She completed\nher Master's degree in Art (2012) and her Bachelor's degree in Textile (2009) at the\nOslo National Academy of the Arts.<\/p>

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at, among others, WIELS project space,\nBrussels (2023), Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer (2021), Westf\u00e4lischer\nKunstverein, Mu\u0308nster (2020), Kunstverein G\u00f6ttingen (2020), Soy Capit\u00e1n, Berlin\n(2021, 2018, 2017), and Soft Galleri, Oslo (2015).\nShe has also participated in group exhibitions at venues including Hordaland\nKunstsenter, Bergen (2019), Kunsthall Stavanger (2018), Norsk Skulpturbiennale\n(2017), Galerie Fiebach Minninger, Cologne (2016), and Munchmuseet, Oslo (2015).\nKunsthal Thy\u2019s<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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