What does an otherwise incomprehensible, physical pain look like? Katrine Skovsgaard has created a work (I) based on interviews with people who suffer from chronic pain. The conversations have led to a process of artistic co-creation, where Skovsgaard took photographic portraits, which were printed on silk fabrics in ratio 1:1
What does an otherwise incomprehensible, physical pain look like? Katrine Skovsgaard has created a work (I) based on interviews with people who suffer from chronic pain. The conversations have led to a process of artistic co-creation, where Skovsgaard took photographic portraits, which were printed on silk fabrics in ratio 1:1. Next, the portrayed individual painted a free representation of their pain on their own portrait. Skovsgaard explores whether visualisation of pain has the potential to generate empathy; whether the act of making something visible can generate an intuitive interpersonal understanding. The work thus both focuses on and creates images of an issue that is otherwise invisible and taboo. Fundamentally, the work challenges the dominant, creating artist subject, as Skovsgaard enters into collective artistic processes renouncing parts of the aesthetic creation. The work includes workshops. Skovsgaard has recieved 15.Juni Fondens hæderspris for the work.