Side by Side
Diptych consisting of silver/gelatine on baryte paper camera obscura photograph of Nuugaarsuk Point, Narsaq, and color-toned photograph of industrial interior in the Arctic mounted on two pieces of white cardboard with pencil annotations featuring a text by Pia Arke and with traces of having been taped together.
The danish inscription on the left of the diptych reads:
“Fishing out skulls and bones I place them in a row - side by side - it is not popular but it looks entertaining”.
The danish inscription on the right side of the diptych reads:
“Sound and smell of men with crew-cut hair and big hairy buttocks strapped in blue trousers two stories down in the spermafrost the smell of fox piss fills my nose Hello Dolly this is where the rocket stood”.
There is a danish inscription on the back, which reads:
“ - what the image contains of dream and repression - an image to be followed. To Carsten, Veronica and Teresa from Pia”
Early 1990’s
Measurements: 56,5 x 68 cm
Collection of Veronica, Carsten and Teresa Juhl.