I am with U
Installation view of the space with the two tower-like sculptures in the front, the plaster cast on the back wall, and the sculpture on the balcony.
I am with U
solo show at
Spanien19C
Kalkværksvej 11 A-B, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
March 8 - 30, 2025
For this reason, the sculptures cannot exhaustively be described from merely one single logical vantage point but must each, together and in extension of each other, be contemplated, sensated, and experienced as composite objects that operate in ways other than the customary manner of thinking. What has been painstakingly placed and what has been rejected? What is chaste and what is impure? What is filthy? It’s not quite possible to say as the sculptures unfold and interrogatively prod the lilies’ classic solid form and the metal-rings lack of the same. As the sculpturesstep out from themselvesand take effect.
Read the full essay Between Two Spaces by Johan Zimsen Kristiansen HERE.
The production of the works and the exhibition was generously supported by Grosserer L.F. Foghts Foundation, the Danish Art Foundation and City of Aarhus.
Image credit: Mikkel Kaldal

I am with U
2025
Angle steel, nuts and bolts, LED lights, smoked coloured glass, found cardboard boxes, cock rings, peach-flavored ice tea, white lilies
300 x 175 x 175 cm (each)










I am with U
2025
Angle steel, nuts and bolts, LED lights, smoked coloured glass, found cardboard boxes, cock rings, peach-flavored iced tea, white lilies, ghetto blaster (tape: 2 x 45 min)
83 (170 with lily) x 120 x 71 cm


Ornament
2025
Plaster relief with traces of cardboard and ink
31 x 25 x 5.5 cm


© Jóhan Martin Christiansen 2025. All rights reserved.