The Blubber Ladder (Emil, Ole and Asger)

Assemblage in eight parts consisting of 1 x wooden ladder found at the Danish Polar Center’s book storage in the North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, 2 x framed maps of North East Greenland from Danmarks Geodætiske Institut [Denmark’s Geodetic Institute], 1 x framed Krak city map of Copenhagen with the locations of the Danish Polar Center, the National Museum of Denmark, and the Zoological Museum marked with red and blue pushpins, 3 x framed appropriated color photographs of objects left behind by the Germans during their 1943 stay at Eskimonæs, North East Greenland, originally taken by Asger Fredslund Pedersen from the Sirius Patrol in 1994, and 1 x framed color pinhole camera photograph of the ocean view at Lønstrup Cliff, North Jutland. Of the physical installation, the ladder, photo of typewriter, photo of oceanview of Lønstrup Cliff remains today,

Ladder 190 x 45 x 8 cm

Typewriter 41,5 x 36 cm.

Ocean view: 61 x 51 cm.

1998

Collection of the Pia Arke Estate