DITTE EJLERSKOV

FOREST MIRROR

OPENING THURSDAY 20 AUGUST, 5–7 PM
THROUGH 20 SEPTEMBER 2026

Forest Mirror takes place within New Gynæa, a jungle-like pictorial world I have returned to for many years across several works. It is not intended as a landscape or a representation of nature. Instead, I see it as a visual system in which forms are copied, reflected and altered. The paintings behave almost like versions of the same file: recognisable, but never identical.

At the centre of the exhibition is The Final Bow. A figure bends forward in a gesture that can suggest submission, performance, exhaustion or transition.

The figure returns throughout the exhibition in mirrored and displaced configurations. In some paintings, one work appears to answer another. Yet the repetition is never exact. Colours shift, forms slip out of alignment and details emerge or disappear. These deviations are important to me. They interrupt the symmetry and make the image feel unstable, as though it has been processed, duplicated or incorrectly rendered.

This digital logic exists alongside the organic language of the jungle.

In the final stage of a painting, I use a Posca pen to trace selected forms. The line allows me to return to marks that were made quickly and without a fixed intention. By outlining them, I assign them a function. A dot becomes an eye, a stain becomes a leaf, an uncertain shape becomes part of a body.

The outline does not simply clarify what is already there. It changes the status of the image. Something provisional is made definite, even when that certainty is artificial.

For me, this process resembles memory. We return to experiences that were incomplete or ambiguous and redraw them until they appear coherent. Each repetition fixes the image more firmly, while also moving it further away from what originally occurred.

-Ditte Ejlerskov

Ditte Ejlerskov, born 1982 in Frederikshavn, lives and works in Skælskør, Denmark. Ditte Ejlerskov has studied at The Funen Art Academy in Odense, Cooper Union School of Art in New York and holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, 2009.