Spejlinger af ind- og udfoldede ARK, ARK number 130
(Mirroring of in-folded and out-folded pages)
A ARK-folder inside a ARK-folder inside a ARK-folder…
Myne Søe-Pedersen carries forth an artistic doubling of the ARK-folder.
For us, on the editorial board, it’s truly a pleasure to present ARK number 130. The present issue of our art periodical consists of Myne Søe-Pedersen’s work, Spejlinger af ind- og udfoldede ARK (Mirroring of in-folded and out-folded pages), which showcases five different scanning’s of a mirror in the ARK-folder which have been reproduced in various stages of unfolding. The scanning images have subsequently been printed on the same type of paper as the ARK-folder (Multiart Silk, 250 gram). What consequently arises is an extraordinary and disconcerting doubling of the ARK-folder. Cover and contents trade places: that which, ordinarily, is merely a vessel for something else comes to be the very content: the ARK-folder becomes pages, while the pages become the ARK-folder.
What we have here, then, is an ARK for true ARKtivists: all of those who, like us, love to unfold the flaps of the ARK-folder and eagerly await whatever it is that’s hidden inside the folder In this manner, Myne Søe-Pedersen's work falls in line with a small and exclusive group of ARK-issues that have ARK itself as their theme and motif. New readers are hereby encouraged to go exploring in our back-catalog and examine ARK 26 (where Eric Andersen transformed the ARK-folder into a scent machine) or ARK 54 (the ARK-folder of which was fitted with a perforation edge, so that it could be torn in half for ARK 126 (which was fitted with fluttering ‘wings’ of posters that could be unfolded both toward the inside and toward the outside).
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