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June 17, 2025

[,]

Anders Aarvik @Abattoir, Copenhagen
June 07 — 17, 2025

Installation, [,]. s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].

[,] is an exhibition composed of salvaged computers, furniture and stormwater crates, patient clothing, found images and carved wood. It envisions a time where we are carried and protected by other species and antiquated computational devices. A time in which they are important to us as kin and valuable resources. The title is a pictogram and can represent, for example, a placeholder, an empty list, a start or an end, or a box.

This exhibition could not have been realised without Anne Sofie Skjold Møller, Aske Hvitved, Sofie Meta Schroeder, Jacob Remin, and friends of Halmtorvet 11A-F and Abattoir. Thanks to Bispebjerg Hospital, Urban Water Retention, reiser+umemoto, Danish Arts Foundation, Langgade Recycling Station, and to the engineers behind Linux, Bash, Python, Rust, Vosk, iocaine, GIMP and their dependencies.

Installation, [,]. s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Installation, [,]. s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Installation, [,]. s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Installation, [,]. s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Left: t e r m i n a l. Table, monitor, keyboard, serial cable. Right: s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
t e r m i n a l. Table, monitor, keyboard, serial cable
s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Installation, [,].
t r a p. Computer, chassis, cellular router, program [generate web applications trapping LLM/AI scrapers in an inifnite maze of data poisoning in a Markov chain based text about forest feedback loops (ecological traps) leading to natural disasters].
h e a r t. Cowbell, cord [interactive].
b r e a c h. Sunflowers.
Detail, b r e a c h. Sunflowers.
Detail, s p i r i t s. Discarded patient clothing sewn into gloves.
s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
o f f i c e. Photographic print, mud, magnetes.
c a r r i e r. Drypoint on mulberry paper, clip frame, privacy film.
c a r r i e r. Drypoint on mulberry paper, clip frame, privacy film.
s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
Detail, s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
g u e s t s. Wooden figures. By Aske Hvitved.
s e c r e t k e e p e r. Salvaged computers, storage units, stormwater crates, monitor arm, monitor, microphones, network switch, ethernet cables, power cables, custom built linux kernel [disabled internet], program [sentences spoken in the space are transcribed, encrypted, and destructed on activation of h e a r t].
g u e s t s. Wooden figures. By Aske Hvitved.
s a p. USB killer (high voltage pulse generator for disk destruction), metal shelf, tree sap.
s a p. USB killer (high voltage pulse generator for disk destruction), metal shelf, tree sap.
m a n i f e s t e d i m a g e s (the west's self-destruction): Fight club, 1999 [retitled: techno-masculinity or; scene of combined destruction of corporate art and franchise coffee bar]. Found photographic prints from recycling station, magnetes.
m a n i f e s t e d i m a g e s (the west's self-destruction): A sunday on la grande jatte, 1884 [retitled: scene of the bourgeoisie on the right bank while the proletariat remains hidden on the left bank]. Found photographic prints from recycling station, magnetes.
m a n i f e s t e d i m a g e s (the west's self-destruction): The suicide of saul, 1562 [retitled: scene of the west's death testified to the height of its own self-destruction]. Found photographic prints from recycling station, magnetes.

[,]
Anders Aarvik

Abattoir, Copenhagen
June 07 — 17, 2025
(by appointment)

Photography: David Stjernholm/ All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.

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