UR-FORM

Art intervention in the Cultural History Museum's Ethnographic Library and in the museum's Antiquity Collection

In her photographic project UR-FORM, artist Nina Torp discusses authenticity, authority and representation. Two of the project's photographs are on display in the Cultural History Museum's Ethnographic Library, while two are in the museum's Antiquity Collection.

Nina Torp is working on what might be called a reverse archaeological process. She attempts to find something "antique" in cheap copies of urns. The urns used in her project are from our recent past, bought in various markets and shops. In the artist's collection there are both unique and mass-produced urns. She smashes and reconstructs the urns repeatedly and documents the process in photographs. The remains are staged as archaeological artifacts.