ABOUT AMALIE JAKOBSEN
Amalie Jakobsen works with form, colour and space. With shards of metal and bands of coloured material she measures the spaces we inhabit and move around in to investigate how we relate to our body’s physicality and our surroundings. In combining delicate and fragile materials - fabric and latex - with a minimalist visual language using hard, industrial materials - steel, magnets, and aluminium - Jakobsen pushes a minimalist tradition deriving from artists such as Richard Serra, Robert Morris and Frank Stella to new dimensions.
Her works explore the interrelation between form, space and time, and expand the sculptural medium with her exact geometrical shapes in bright, and often, primary colours that infect and occupy the exhibition space. One is forced to move in a specific way, which is determined by the shapes of the works that measure and map the dimensions of the space. The works create by their form and extent a body, which defines a spatiality.