Book launch and talk: Tove Storch, Lauren Elkin & Maria Kjær Themsen
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The Danish artist Tove Storch’s continuous studies of sculpture and materials are known to many. On the other hand, her work with sculpture as a feminist object is barely described. A new publication by Art Hub Copenhagen titled Slump into Rebellion now wishes to make up for this by collecting and disseminating Storch’s artistic practice over the past 20 years and for the first time bringing a feminist theoretical perspective to it, centrally with an essay by Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023).
To celebrate this new book, Gammel Strand and AHC invited for a launch and talk with Tove Storch and Lauren Elkin, moderated by art critic, curator, and editor of the book Maria Kjær Themsen.
It took place on 4 May at Gammel Strand in conjunction with Storch’s solo show Slumping.
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MORE ABOUT THE PUBLICATION
Slump into Rebellion gathers three texts on Danish artist Tove Storch’s work and thought. Firstly, a conversation between Danish curator Stine Hebert and Storch herself, who take us back to the start of their friendship, and into the “backroom” that any artist maintains throughout their working life, a room of conversations informing and developing their artistic practice. The second text in this book is by Lauren Elkin – American translator and author – examining Storch’s art works through the lens of feminist theory, laying bare important but less discussed reflections on their subversive potential. Finally, Slump into Rebellion also includes a republishing of a poetic text by curator and art critic Paola Paleari, which fascinatingly weaves together Storch’s work and Newton’s law of universal gravitation.
The book is published by Art Hub Copenhagen (AHC) in connection with Tove Storch’s participation in AHC’s dissemination program Artistic Practice and upcoming collaboration with Glas – Museum of Glass Art in Ebeltoft, where Tove Storch will open another solo exhibition later this year.
The Artistic Practice program is led by editor and project manager Karina Lykkesborg.
