Darkness Pulls, 2023 |  Video sculpture, oak, screen, black pigment, video, linen, plastic, 10 min (loop), without sound





In Darkness Pulls, heavy linen stretched over oak frames forms the base for black plaster reliefs that open into moving images. Through circular apertures, flickering scenes appear: a rooster fighting the wind, an apple trembling on its branch, a candle burning behind a pendulum-like black egg. Each carries symbolic weight—the rooster evoking denial, the apple temptation, the flame fragile faith. Material and image merge in a meditation on time and transience. The tactile surfaces of plaster, fabric and wood anchor the immaterial light of video, holding tension between solidity and dissolution. Shifting between the earthly and the spiritual, the work revives religious motifs within a contemporary sensibility, where belief flickers yet never fully fades.


CREDITS

Camera: Henrik Vierø
Concept, editing and colour grading: Katja Bjørn

Installation view from the exhibition Grønningen at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in 2023.