Nanna-Lucie Bregendahl-Axilgard

I walked around with my mom finding objects and the stories that belong with them.

It is as if we can summon the dead from these relics.

We visit these objects and memories almost religiously.

We look at them, touch them, talk about them.

Is it to remember who we are?

If we didn't, would they disappear? Would I disappear?”

Quote from Nanna-Lucie's thesis, Mormor’s Gardiner.

 

Nanna-Lucie hasbeen dealing with an attachment to objects from a time they did not live, feeling nostalgic about a moment they did not experience, longing for a past that was never their present.

Nanna-Lucie works closely with their family history, not only through family photos but with the colors and patterns within.

 

Dealing with grief and loss through play and storytelling.

Feeling a need to keep on telling stories about the people who have passed just like their mother did to them.

Nanna-Luice’s storytelling might not be through words, but by embodying the past in present objects. They have been researching the colors from the time of their mother’s childhood, the patterns on the bed sheets, the home-made curtains, and the countless striped shirts that appear in the photos.

All these objects are the foundation to their creativity, shaping their fascination for colors and patterns. They use this immense field of material to inspire them, mixed with their own world, to create a body of work that embodies the themes of nostalgia, attachment, grief, color, and play.

(Re)creating works with the mind of the past and knowledge from the present.