Exhibition format - Installation notes

Cancelled → Cosmos is conceived as a walk-through, multi-surface installation rather than a traditional display of framed photographs. The work is built to be encountered physically: viewers move, pause, circle, and shift perspective as images unfold across paper, fabric, canvas, and sculptural elements.

 

Each of the four parts includes hand-printed pieces on antique pillowcases, fine art watercolor paper, handmade large-scale sheets, and fabric, with select works torn, layered, or transferred to emphasize texture and physical presence. The process remains deliberately analog in spirit, even when materials vary.

 

The texts for each part form a structural element of the installation. They may be presented as audio recordings (one per section) and/or as wall-mounted texts, so visitors can read or listen as they move through the space. These written passages are not supplemental; they anchor the progression of the project.

 

The exhibition can be adapted to both intimate and expansive venues. Depending on the space, the installation may include suspended works, table pieces, and small object-based groupings or altars. The interplay of materials, scale, and placement creates a quiet, immersive environment where image, texture, and text unfold in sequence.

 

Part I – Canceld

​Medium / Format: Photography, painting, and mixed media. Archival prints on fine art paper, unframed. Includes one painted work (Pink Body).

Recorded audio work.

Size (proposed):

• 40 x 28 / 28 x 40 cm (TBD) Limited edition.

Key Works / Symbols:

• Cross / X self-portrait

• Wrapped figure

• Two sunflowers (rupture + shadow)

• Single pillow

• Chairs

• Veiled painting collage

 

Presentation Notes: Unframed prints presented in sequence, highlighting rupture, erasure, and resilience.

 

Part II – What is Empty is Also Ready

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Medium / Format: Photography. Archival prints, unframed.

Size (proposed):

• 40 x 28 / 28 x 40 cm (TBD) Limited edition.

Key Works / Symbols:

• Empty bowl (emptiness as holding, readiness)

• Passionfruit (hidden life, seeded interior, emergence)

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Part III – Dreamscapes / Machines / Thresholds

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Medium / Format:

Collage and silkscreen on canvas, assembled from photographic fragments and digitally composed imagery.

Two complementary forms:

1. Large work - printed on fabric or handmade cotton paper, torn / split into two panels.

2. Nine-part assembly - smaller works extracted from the larger composition.

Size (proposed):

• Large work: approx. 70 x 85 cm (two panels, each 70 x 42,5-ish cm).

• Nine-part assembly: Photo transfer to either individual canvas or archival cotton rag paper

- each approx. 14 x 24 cm. (TBD)

Key Works / Symbols:

• Motorcycle + moped (journey, Easy Rider, divided self/divided America)

• Stairs (thresholds, ascent, states of mind)

• Sunflower fragments (resilience, regeneration)

• Upside-down American flag (distress, fracture, division)

• Pop art silkscreen lineage: Rauschenberg, Warhol, Jasper Johns (personal homage; my son is named Jasper after Johns)

• Geography: Denmark ↔ California (split belonging, transatlantic identity)

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​​​Presentation Notes:

The torn/split canvas emphasizes fracture; the nine-part assembly suggests reconfiguration and multiplicity.

The work bridges autobiographical narrative with cultural/political resonance, in dialogue with pop art traditions.

Layered photography and hand-painted overlays convey thresholds, movement, and emergence.

Presentation Notes:

Paired images emphasizing stillness, potential, and quiet abundance.

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Material notes / Process Studies

These material notes trace how the images begin to inhabit matter - transferred by hand, layered on thick paper, torn and rejoined - testing how fragility and transformation can be carried through surface, texture, and scale.

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Part IV – Cosmos

 

Medium / Format: Photography and collage

Printing process TBD; Likely UV prints on acrylic glass to emphasize luminosity.

Hanging freely in room - not on wall.

Size (proposed):

• 40 x 28 / 28 x 40 cm (TBD) Limited edition.

Key Works / Symbols:

• Bat wings

• Shooting star

• Moon Eclipse (cosmological threshold)

 

Presentation Notes:

Celestial imagery opens the series outward, situating personal rupture and repair within a wider cosmological frame.

 

 

Le Pels - Artist Bio 

 

Le is a Danish artist based between California and Denmark. Her multidisciplinary practice moves between photography, performance, and installation, exploring the porous edges between visibility and silence, intimacy and distance.

Rooted in her own lived experience and the poetics of self-portraiture, her work traces how connection, memory, and belonging are shaped across time, place, and relationship.

Trained as a filmmaker, method actor and -director, with studies in architecture and a background in movement expression/mime/contemporary dance/performance art and graphic design Le’s visual language is informed by both movement and structure.

She works with image, sound, and texture as intertwined forms, creating multi-sensory works that invite emotional and tactile engagement. Her art is deeply shaped by her spiritual practice as a healer and Reiki practitioner, and Advanced Sound-wave Energy Therapist, where energetic and somatic awareness meet creative process. Having lived in Denmark, Italy, France, the United States, and spend long periods in Sweden - she brings a cross-cultural sensitivity to her work. As a mother whose family life spans continents, Le’s work reflects the quiet distances and enduring bonds between generations, and the continual search for home; both within and between us. 

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