Thursday 3 February, visual artist Julie Stavad meets O—Overgaden curator Ida Schyum for a conversation in her solo exhibition I am here for pleasure but it is no fun.

Please join us this Thursday for a conversation that dives into Stavad’s visual universe, staged at O—Overgaden with humor, sensitivity, and hints of drama.

The everyday object is central in the solo show “I am here for pleasure but it is no fun” by Danish artist Julie Stavad. By either scaling up the size of objects or shaping them in atypical materials, Stavad raises the question of whether everyday objects lift us up or weigh us down. Because who actually holds the power – humans or things?

The artist talk will bring up fantasy and anthropomorphism, the “cheeky chap” of a more-than-seven-meter-long sculptural pole in the exhibition, the consumer culture of late capitalist society, Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” and the strange sense of walking through life without any real opportunity or chance to change the state of things.