Goldilocks and the Three Pigs, 2011

Taxidermy pigs. L 75 - 150 cm. 

Three pigskins with stuffed heads lie on the floor, mimicking the familiar image of a tiger or polar bear rug in front of the fireplace. It evokes memories of hunting lodges, big-game hunters, and exclusive indulgence.
The use of the number three and the fairytale motif of "trip trap" shoe sizes is also clearly present in the work. The title refers to Goldilocks, who in her mischievous escape comes upon the house in the woods. However, the three bears that Goldilocks encounters have here been transformed into industrially farmed pigs – the icon of Danish agriculture at its most unromantic.
The use of cultural codes and familiar elements from reality points to the world as something known and intimate. But this familiarity is continually disrupted, and a single, clear interpretation of the work is not possible. The three pigs exist in an alternate reality where nothing is quite as it seems.

Included in the solo show with Svend-Allan Sørensen, Mörkersyn / Dark Vision, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, Sweden  (2011).

Included in the solo show The Dark Passenger, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway (2012).

Included in the group show Huset i Skoven, Skovhuset ved Søndersø, Værløse, Denmark  (2012).
Artists: Theis Wendt, Jesper Carlsen, Birgitte Støvring, Lise Blomberg Andersen, Christian Skeel, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Lars Tygesen, Bank & Rau, Lykke Andersen, Stephanie Donsø.

Included in the group show Drømmeland, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark  (2014).
Artists: Randi og Katrine, FOS, Peter Land, Tove Storch, Harald Slott-Møller, Jonas Hvid Søndergaard, Andreas Schulenburg, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Christian Lemmerz, Michael Kvium, Harald Giersing, Nina Saunders, Morten Schelde, Peter Callesen, Ib Monrad Hansen, Jais Nielsen, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Julie Nord, Rikke Benborg, Pernille Rose Grønkjær & Astrid Kruse Jensen, Harry Carlson, Wilhelm Freddie, Annika von Hausswolff, Emil Westman Hertz, Micha Klein, Jesper Just, Elina Merenmies, Ejnar Nielsen, Kathrine Ærtebjerg, Christine Hamre, Olaf Breuning, Marc Chagall, Trine Boesen, Jon Stahn, Arne Haugen Sørensen, Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen, Anette Harboe Flensburg, Anders Brinch, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Peter Neuch, William Scharff, Sven Dalsgaard, Marika Seidler, Florian Meisenberg og Geoffrey Hendricks.

Photo: Niels Fabæk + Hesselholdt & Mejlvang.

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