Tim Høibjerg Post-Anthropocene Portrait I
Tim Høibjerg, Post-Anthropocene Portrait I, 90 x 40 x 70, Polymer resin. Installation view: Konstakademien
During a visit in spring 2021 to the Royal Institute of Art MFA programme exhibition at Konstakademien, titled, ’Transmission’, I saw, or rather experienced, Tim Høibjerg’s artwork Post-Anthropocene Portrait I.
The work, a sculpture set in the middle of the exhibition’s galleries, placed directly onto the floor, caught my attention as soon as I entered the art hall’s doors. An organic form, colored gray, white and red. A muscular arm, or a bone, the extremities that end in what could be hands or claws. I’m drawn to the sculpture, looking closer and I am struck by the surface aberration, what appears to be a wound on the otherwise smooth skin.
My thoughts travel to the art school’s croquis lessons. Teacher’s word: observe the shape, identify the bodily composition! But suddenly, at the same time I think of something unpleasant, something familiar but scary, what Ernst Jentsch calls “Das Unheimliche.”
The feeling of discomfort, of uncertainty makes me react, without analyzing any kind of artistic or philosophical idea. I sense the work, physically and psychologically.
/Susann Fessé 2021
Tim Høibjerg, born in Kristiansand (NOR), lives and works in Stockholm (SWE). He holds an MFA at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden (2021) and a BFA at the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo. Norway (2019).
Tim Høibjerg, Post-Anthropocene Portrait I, 90 x 40 x 70, Polymer resin. Installation view: Konstakademien