RITUAL RELICS
30.10-5.11

MORTEN OVERGAARD
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TOBIAS JACOBSEN

What will remain when we are gone?

Ritual Relics explores our enduring human impulse to create, repeat, preserve and assign meaning to the things we leave behind. The works in the exhibition appear almost as artefacts recovered from another time: fragments of a forgotten civilisation, traces of rituals no longer remembered, objects carrying the weight of histories we can only imagine.

At the same time, they might be something else entirely. Perhaps they are not relics of the past, but evidence of our own future.

Tobias Jacobsen and Morten Overgaard approach this idea from two distinct but connected directions. Jacobsen’s ceramic works move between the monumental and the fragile. Draped surfaces, delicate folds and intricate details are translated from soft, temporary fabric into something hard and enduring. Familiar forms begin to resemble geological formations, landscapes or organic structures. What was once fleeting becomes permanent.

Overgaard’s masks emerge from layers of abstract symbols, textures and signs. Referencing cave paintings and early forms of writing, his works evoke fragments of a civilisation in the process of being uncovered. Faces appear, disappear and re-emerge, inviting us to search for meaning in patterns and marks. They speak to something deeply human: our instinct to recognise, interpret and create connections, even where none may have existed before.

Together, the works occupy a space between the recognisable and the unfamiliar, the natural and the man-made, the ancient and the yet to come.

Ritual Relics does not offer a single story or a fixed interpretation. Instead, it asks what makes an object meaningful in the first place. When does something we create become a relic? When does a mark become a message? And what traces of our existence might survive long after we are gone?

Perhaps these works are not new objects at all.

Perhaps they are traces of a life already lived - or evidence of one yet to come.