Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park (@dhyvnpark).

Press Release, November 2023

Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom is a solo exhibition by Olivia Rode Hvass consisting of painted walls, flora and burned sticks collected in the Gangwond-do province. work-gloves and wooden shoes.

In the midst of the installation you find multiple works, drawings, sculpture and the digitally woven tapestry series De varme hænder (Hot hands !), (2023) – a tale of cross-historical rebellion and rituals towards environmental and social change, where stick figures dance in a witchy circle around a burning car, and where mystical figures grow out of the ashes and remains of previous struggles. Through the usage of myths and fairytales, Hvass examines the notion of burning it all to the ground.

In 00.00 Hvass lingers on the moment after the storm. Where embers still glow in the grass, and mold begins to spread. What sprouts from the ashes of the new?

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (detail). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The House, 2023 (TC2 woven tapestry made at Huhmarkangas Studio, Finland, acrylic paint on jute, floral necklace). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The House, 2023 (detail). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Embers, 2023 (Acrylic, pastel, jute). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, The Cleaner, 2023 (Sticks, yoke, bucket, stones, jewelry, burned wood, custommade shoes – jute, blanket, jester-bells – leaves, painted washboard). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass (b. 1995, DK) (she/her, they/them) is a Copenhagen based artist with a BA from the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts (2021) and a masterclass in TC2 weaving with Professor Corrie van Eijk-Doktor, Drachten NL. Hvass’ works in a crossfield between textile, drawing, installation and sculptural work, with craftsmanship and storytelling as a red thread. Hvass’ work is concerned with myth and legend bleeding into the hyperreal fabric of modern human society, curious about the complex networks of thousands of years of storytelling and tradition looming just under the asphalt of the ever-growing cities of today. Their work has an underlying humor which invites the viewer inside.

Olivia Rode Hvass, De varme hænder ( Hot hands!) 1, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry made at Huhmarkangas Studio, Finland, cotton, jewelry, heart hangers, sticks and flora, work gloves, wooden shoes). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, De varme hænder ( Hot hands!) 3, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry made at Huhmarkangas Studio, Finland, cotton, lighter leash with “Be Happy” lighter). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, De varme hænder ( Hot hands!) 1, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry made at Huhmarkangas Studio, Finland, cotton, jewelry, heart hangers, sticks and flora, work gloves, wooden shoes). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, De varme hænder ( Hot hands!) 1, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry made at Huhmarkangas Studio, Finland, cotton, jewelry, heart hangers, sticks and flora, work gloves, wooden shoes). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

The exhibition at 00.00 will be Hvass' international debut. Hvass has previously exhibited at various Danish platforms and institutions such as Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal 6100, Kunsthal NORD, Sydhavn Station, Ladder Space, and Archway Nightlands Connector. In 2024 Hvass will exhibit at Skovgaard Museet (DK), Tranen (DK) and Rønnebæksholm (DK).

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom, 2023 (Coal and pastel on paper, jewelry, natural string). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, De varme hænder ( Hot hands!) 2, 2023 (Carved and burned wood). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Suddenly the sky was bright, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry, burned wood, yarn, matches, iron). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Suddenly the sky was bright, 2023 (TC2-woven tapestry, burned wood, yarn, matches, iron). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!, 2023 (Ecoprint on fabric, hay, fabric scrap, jewelry, wood). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!, 2023 (Ecoprint on fabric, hay, fabric scrap, jewelry, wood). Photo: Dohyun Park.

Olivia Rode Hvass, Sticks on Fire, Hands in Bloom (Installation view). 00.00, 2023. Photo: Dohyun Park.

Curators: Shin Sumin and Kim Min.

Exhibition text: Junghyun Kwon.

Assistants: Maiken Stæhr and Mads Borre. Collaborators: Dayun Ryu, Søren from Snedkerværkstedet Nørrebro, My Rose, Maria Bergmann, Sophia Iannou Gjerding, The Kim Family.

Exhibition period: 10th - 26th of November, 2023.
More info: www.00of00.com

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