A Hundred (Different) Flowers Are In Full Bloom, 2025
Solo exhibition: Augustiana Kunsthal og -Park
Dates: August 16 – November 2, 2025
Exhibition view: Photo by Jacob Friis Holm Nielsen.
Walls:
The installation features 70 plaster casts of the artist’s and her son’s hands, arranged on the walls in wave-like formations.
Floor:
On the floor, a bench upholstered with woven textile includes a built-in sound piece.
Exhibition Text — Augustiana
Lise Tovesdatter Skou
Taking its point of departure in the idea that many ways of being can coexist, the exhibition approaches autism without fixing it as a stable category. Instead, experience is understood as something that emerges through movement, relation, and sensation.
The project grows out of personal experience and is developed with ongoing ethical attention to the lives it touches — including the collaboration with my son. Participation here is not about representation, but about a shared, situated process where experience is co-formed and cannot be separated into discrete positions.
Inspired by Fernand Deligny and Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (often discussed as “relational ecologies”), the work moves away from ideas of lack and normalization. Difference is approached as relational and processual — something that takes shape between bodies, environments, and time.
The exhibition unfolds through themes such as social expectations, nonverbal communication, and the need for withdrawal. The works do not present fixed statements but remain open processes — invitations to experience rather than to define.
Extract from the exhibition booklet:
“I search the absent facial expressions. The movement of hands, the restlessness of fingers. The silent presence fills the room. I look into the gaps and cracks for traces of language — pathways into a language I do not yet understand. I think of ocean waves, constantly shifting and amplifying as they meet one another. Slowly, I begin to understand our non verbal language like the sea’s waves, mutually affecting, transforming, and amplifying each other to prevent collapse. The movements of our hands create vibrations that spread and resonate within us — an audible language that shapes our relationship, through which deep connection and meaning emerge, and we find our own ways of communicating.”
