Forvandlinger / Metamorphoses

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sand cast porcelain, 60 % recycled glass

140 x 120 x 3 cm

Lisbet Thorborg Andersen works in porcelain, yet her pieces extend far beyond the material’s traditional aesthetic. Her approach is sensory and exploratory, often guided by the motifs that emerge in the process. In her hands, the material becomes a channel between the past and possible futures. Rather than reproducing the familiar, she creates enigmatic objects that seem to carry a narrative - of something we may have forgotten or perhaps not yet encountered.

Animal bones – foraged from nature and stripped of their original meaning - are pressed into sand and cast in porcelain. The method, which the artist refers to as reverse archaeology, is not about unearthing the past, but about conjuring connections, transformations and unexpected potential. Symmetry plays a central role, recalling the mirrored ink patterns of the Rorschach test, where meaning is not fixed, but emerges in dialogue with the viewer.

Through combinations that transcend species and eras, new ambiguous organic forms arise: insects, fossils, talismans, perhaps even creatures from an alternative evolution? It is in this in-between space - between the seen and the imagined, the physical and the intangible - that the works acquire their magical quality.

Thorborg Andersen works with recycled glass and firing techniques that lend her pieces a more sustainable presence - not only in terms of materiality, but also as part of a narrative in which no substance is without history and no form is without a future. When the mass meets the imprint and the heat of the kiln, it is transformed: not merely into a solid object, but into something that seems to vibrate with an inner energy. The texture of the sand transfers to the porcelain’s matte, skin-like surface, forming glittering particles reminiscent of stardust or crystals - tiny traces of the material’s alchemy, born of the meeting of the elements: Sand, water, fire and air.

The magic lies in the details - in the will of the materials themselves, in what arises between control and chance. Each piece bears traces of its creation: the imprint of the sand, the heat of the fire and the shaping hands - but also a spiritual resonance that connects us to forgotten stories and sensuous new worlds.

Mathilde Helnæs, Curator, Sorø Art Museum