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Inger Sif Heeschen
Inger Sif Heeschen RCA
Inger is from Denmark, and graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, 2016.
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Chosen for the project was a collection of fake stone axes which came from antique dealers to a geological survey at The National Museum in Copenhagen. This started an interest in objects that imitate a historical authenticity and how these idioms become pop cultural tropes.
By entitling the project ”Battle of ages”, Inger wished to refer to the approximation and inaccuracy in which archaeological finds are being dated and categorized within different ages, such as Stone- age, Bronze-age, Iron-age. But also to question how narratives are constructed around historic artifacts to gain insight and to visualize ancient societies. Fictions that can be experienced in popular historical drama series as Game of Thrones, The Last Kingdom and Vikings. Through various investigations/attempts of adapting stone texture onto the slaps of clay, Inger chose to incorporate the symbolic images from the stone carvings of historical sights of Denmark, mainly Bornholm. The petroglyphs elude symbolic language from ancient times, which readings and purpose will be forever reinterpreted
The intention was to juxtapose these elements into one figure, by reshaping stone axes with engravings of petroglyphs, was to enhance the failure of accuracy that caught the antique dealer, or possible maker in the initial fraud.
To continue the explorations into the contemporary disfunction of the stone-axes and the notion of being disarmed, Inger engaged into the puzzle-like qualities of her printed axe patterns. www.ingerheeschen.com
Above: Collection of stone-axe heads. Found in newsletter article.
Left: Battle of Ages II Photo: Mads Peter Gøbel Elmquist.