General Suspicion with Sarah Buchner

General Suspicion emerged from a conversation between Anabela Veloso and Sarah Buchner with what Thorvaldsen's Museum chose to display. This infiltrating installation questions the apparatus from within in a compelling call for dialogue.

Thorvaldsen's museum is a piece frozen in time composed of similar frozen figures and people. The two interventions introduce a different choreography into the static maze; one that links those who had the power to pursue an eternal existence (sculptured busts) with those who still try to break free (imprisoned ancient pieces).

Mimicking the bright blue from the ceiling, lines of blue tape invade the museum floors disclosing the network of relations among the portraited busts. Using the same blue, 4 busts were reproduced into tiny 3D resin models: Alexander I , Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederik VI and Christian (VIII) Frederik. These 4 were selected based on power and influence among the network of the portraited society of busts. Moved now to the same room as the locked antiquities - or Thorvaldsen's collection - sharing the same shelves that have been withering and imprisoning their inhabitants.