The work draws on the clay dances once held on the Danish island of Samsø, where young women kneaded clay to repair farmhouse walls and later celebrated their labor through communal dancing. In the video, elderly women perform a ritual with clay, their gestures moving between tenderness and abandon. Through movement and touch, they evoke creation and decay, revealing a deep kinship of body and earth. As their cotton dresses become coated in clay, they appear both ancient and reborn—figures suspended in the space where myth meets matter. Bog Woman reimagines clay as a material that is both local and planetary, binding ageing to renewal and communal memory to cycles of transformation.
CREDITS
Camera: Jonas Klitgaard
Sound design: Nicolas Vettterli
Concept, editing and colour grading: Katja Bjørn
Performer: Lisbeth Sonne Andersen
Special thanks to all volunteers