Alma Stræde works primarily with textiles, photography and sculpture. In the expanded field of photography she translates tactility and sensual experience into spatial installation. Utilising elements of world-building, Stræde constructs large scale installations consisting of several parts and media, moving from the personal and the intimate toward broader cultural and historical themes.

Her Afgang 2021 work explores the classical human form through photography and sculpture. Sports equipment and medieval armour are juxtaposed in ways that aim to question gendered cultural norms and historical perspectives on art and physicality. From the militaristic to the vulnerable, the body is exposed and protected, moulded, bound and released.

An ongoing and diverse interest in materials and materiality is evident: silicone, bronze, plastics, tarpaulin. Printed, poured, cast, stretched and readymade., these manipulated materials an techniques speak of a considered practice, of working precisely with one's hands. How better to explore the cultural and visual history of the body than to feel it out?

Text by degree show curators Vermillion Sands

Video introduction made by Kunsthal Charlottenborg