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October 2009

Anima Animus

Anima Animus

Anima Animus is Emma Woffenden and her partner Tord Boontje's first collaborative exhibition. It explores the creative dialogue between the couple, who sometimes work in tandem yet always remain distinct from one another.

Tord Boontje is an internationally acclaimed designer.  Emma Woffenden is an artist and originally trained as a glassmaker. Boontje and Woffenden have discussed, collaborated and disagreed for sixteen years. They share similarities in the materials they use, concepts they explore and their approach to process. Despite this, this exhibition illustrates they both clearly express opposing points of view towards the same subjects.

The show presents a selection of the artists’ earlier work, which they created individually, and new, collaborative installations. Emma Woffenden’s work can be defined as hard-edged, controlled and almost excruciatingly intimate and personal. Tord Boontje’s work seems to be sentimental, dreamy and has a global resonance. Their work is a confusion of gender stereotypes. Nevertheless, they do share a sense of humour, which cuts through the sometimes-heavy subject matter.

This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Kvadrat, Ebeltoft, and runs from 2 October 2009 to 14 March 2010 at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark.

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