A sculptural and narrative-driven work by Emilia Sølvsten (2025), "200 Døgn på Flydende Is imens du er på Himmelrejse" features a green iron table frame with an accompanying hand-engraved glass top, merging functional design with conceptual depth. The detailed collage combines the artist’s own motifs with borrowed imagery, exploring the ways stories are shaped, transmitted, and interpreted.
Drawing inspiration from Greenlandic oral traditions, the work engages with personal and collective memory, intertwining myth, history, and lived experience. It incorporates references to historical figures, such as Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the expedition ship Hansa, alongside mythological beings like Qivittoq, Sedna, and Sila. A bird-like figure emerges, symbolizing the spiritual and living weave of nature, resonating with the avian forms in the table frame.
The piece reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in identity, colonial heritage, generational memory, and storytelling, creating a dialogue between past and present while transforming narrative into tangible form. The engraved glass acts as a medium where myth, personal history, and cultural narrative intersect, offering new interpretations with each viewing.
Designed to engage with the domestic space, this work also functions as a sculptural yet practical object, merging conceptual art with everyday interaction. The table’s form, scale, and materiality invite reflection on how stories move through time, the spaces they occupy, and the ways they connect owner, viewer, and artwork.
This work exemplifies Sølvsten’s ability to merge narrative, materiality, and functionality, creating a piece that is at once sculptural, interactive, and deeply rooted in cultural memory. It offers a poetic engagement with history, myth, and personal narrative, transforming everyday space into a site of reflection and imagination.
This table will complement many interior styles. A Modern, Antique, Classic, Scandinavian or an Art Deco home decor.
A sculptural and narrative-driven work by Emilia Sølvsten (2025), "200 Døgn på Flydende Is imens du er på Himmelrejse" features a green iron table frame with an accompanying hand-engraved glass top, merging functional design with conceptual depth. The detailed collage combines the artist’s own motifs with borrowed imagery, exploring the ways stories are shaped, transmitted, and interpreted.
Drawing inspiration from Greenlandic oral traditions, the work engages with personal and collective memory, intertwining myth, history, and lived experience. It incorporates references to historical figures, such as Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the expedition ship Hansa, alongside mythological beings like Qivittoq, Sedna, and Sila. A bird-like figure emerges, symbolizing the spiritual and living weave of nature, resonating with the avian forms in the table frame.
The piece reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in identity, colonial heritage, generational memory, and storytelling, creating a dialogue between past and present while transforming narrative into tangible form. The engraved glass acts as a medium where myth, personal history, and cultural narrative intersect, offering new interpretations with each viewing.
Designed to engage with the domestic space, this work also functions as a sculptural yet practical object, merging conceptual art with everyday interaction. The table’s form, scale, and materiality invite reflection on how stories move through time, the spaces they occupy, and the ways they connect owner, viewer, and artwork.
This work exemplifies Sølvsten’s ability to merge narrative, materiality, and functionality, creating a piece that is at once sculptural, interactive, and deeply rooted in cultural memory. It offers a poetic engagement with history, myth, and personal narrative, transforming everyday space into a site of reflection and imagination.
This table will complement many interior styles. A Modern, Antique, Classic, Scandinavian or an Art Deco home decor.
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