My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality.
"I make art to move through and express the intensity of moods. Energized by acute sensitivity, I write poetry and create sculptural paintings that parallel the Natural World and experiences in Motherhood.
Moving slowly, I layer ink, dye, pastel and acrylic, until friction gives way to visual balance. A tangle of abstract shapes ripple across the canvas in a choreography of color. As in life, movement is essential in the work I develop."
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Haikus for Peace Time is a home-made book produced by Faye Lim and Ng Xi Jie / Salty Thunder. The book is intended to be a poetic amulet and blessing for a baby born in the week of three aviation disasters. Featuring cats, diapers, Robin Williams and boob popsicles, the haikus and the illustrations pack months of whimsy, doubt, eager parenting and hope into a few pages stitched together on Xi Jie’s grandmother’s sewing machine. Faye wrote the twelve haikus in one sitting while watching over her baby as he slept. It is worth noting that the more people who read the book, the more blessings for them and the baby.