Rose Eken

Tapetower (with fragile tape), 2015, glazed paper clay

artist, copenhagen

interview by JULIANA BALESTIN
photo by CASPER SEJERSEN

All works courtesy of the artist and V1 Gallery

 

Copenhagen-based artist Rose Eken works with the familiar objects and tableaux of modern life. Her work — lately in ceramic — is often inspired by music and theater. Using accessible and recognizable forms to stir her audience’s collective memory, Eken’s artwork appears frozen in time, creating a narrative of mystery and suspense.

JULIANA BALESTIN — How do you choose the objects that you reproduce?
ROSE EKEN — Well, it’s usually very common objects, things that surround us every day, or things we strongly relate to through association and memory. How I choose them depends on the story I want to tell.

JULIANA BALESTIN — What specifically prompted you to work in ceramics?
ROSE EKEN — I work in…