Anne Langgaard (DK)
Folding Nations
5/9 - 5/19 2025
Opening: Friday 5 September 17.00-21.00
In the spaces of Galleri CC, the world unfolds in fragile porcelain.
In Anne Langgaard’s total installation Folding Nations, something as universal and seemingly innocent as the paper airplane is transformed into a charged symbol of national identity, geopolitics, and a fragile world order.
The work consists of 254 hand-folded airplanes in A4 format – one for every state and dependent territory registered in ISO 3166-1. Crafted in paper-thin porcelain and painted with their respective national flags, the airplanes represent the idea of a world with clear borders and stable territories. Yet in the installation, this order dissolves. The airplanes lie in piles on the floor, in window niches, and along staircases – as if crashed. They form a fragmented landscape where structure has been replaced by chaos and weight, a silent monument to the unrest and transformation of nations.
On the floor, chalk lines mark today’s conflict zones – borders that slowly blur or shift over the course of the exhibition. They cross and erase one another as visual testimony that borders are never given by nature, but constantly under negotiation – and often under dispute.
Folding Nations operates in the tension between poetry and politics. The paper airplane, usually associated with play, movement, and freedom, is here burdened by its own material. It stands as an image of a world that has lost its lightness, where belonging and sovereignty are not fixed entities but fragile constructions. Folding Nations becomes a temporary archive of broken connections, dissolved affiliations, and an order that is continually folded and unfolded.
The installation is an invitation to reflection; a quiet gesture with heavy resonance. It reminds us that what we once believed to be permanent can crumble – and that fragility often carries the greatest meaning.
The exhibition has been made possible with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Svensk-danska Kulturfonden and Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff och hans hustru, maleren Gerda Eickhoffs Fond.
Anne Langgaard
The poetry and beauty of everyday life lie at the heart of Anne Langgaard’s (DK) artistic practice. She investigates how the ordinary – often dismissed as trivial or meaningless – can reveal unexpected layers of significance when seen from new perspectives. Her work reframes the banal, not as unimportant, but as a site charged with aesthetic, emotional, and existential potential.
Through sculptural transformations, Langgaard draws attention to the overlooked objects and materials that quietly shape our daily lives. A dishcloth cast in bronze or a porcelain replica of a casual note-to-self invites the viewer to pause, reconsider the fleeting, and uncover a beauty hidden in the disregarded.
Her practice highlights the tension between ephemerality and permanence, between the throwaway culture of consumerism and the lasting resonance of everyday moments. With humor and familiarity as points of entry, Langgaard’s works explore how the unnoticed can carry profound aesthetic and existential narratives – gestures that render the ordinary monumental.
Langgaard studied BA Fine Art (Hons) from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (2011–2013), and holds a BA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen (2009–2014). She lives and works in Copenhagen, is a member of the artist-run exhibition space Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, and exhibits both in Denmark and internationally.
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