Dislocated

Text by curator Anna Fernsten Nilén

To dislocate is to move something out of its expected position: a joint forced out of place, an alignment disturbed. In Dislocated, Tilda Lundbohm presents a body taken apart and rearranged, where new forms of connection emerge through fragmentation.

Hands and feet emerge from curved steel structures, suspended somewhere between movement and stillness. They appear almost functional, yet remain strangely displaced. Cast in isomalt, a translucent sugar-based material traditionally used in confectionery, the fragmented forms initially resemble glass while remaining vulnerable to time and touch. Surfaces turn opaque, edges soften, and fragments slowly dissolve. The installation does not represent transformation; it performs it.

Lundbohm creates an unstable body, simultaneously assembling and falling apart. The steel structures, inspired by children's playgrounds and outdoor exercise equipment, evoke movement, strength, and physical ability. Yet the body attached to them refuses to function as expected. It exists between support and collapse, care and control, connection and separation.

Rather than isolated fragments, the installation forms an entangled body: a system of hands, feet, and structures where connection and separation become intertwined. Hands are contradictory instruments: they can comfort, protect, and care, but they can also restrain and control. Feet allow us to stand, move, and orient ourselves in the world, yet here they are detached from the body that gives them purpose. The material becomes both substance and metaphor, holding together the tension between permanence and disappearance, presence and absence, revealing the body as a changing condition.

Through fragmentation, repetition, and an understated sense of humour, Lundbohm makes the familiar strange. The body remains recognisable, yet no longer follows the rules assigned to it. Drawing on lived experience, sculpture, and text, she explores the inseparable relationship between body and mind. The ephemerality and dissolving nature of the material reveal the body not as a fixed form, but as something continuously negotiated, shaped by experience, dependency, change, and its relationships with others. Dislocated unsettles the idea of the body as complete, stable, and controllable.

Photo credit: Jan Søndergaard

Tilda Lundbohm (b. 1994, SE) is an artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, and text in a poetic exploration of language, the body, and existence. Working across diverse materials, techniques, and kinetic elements, Lundbohm investigates questions of desire, trauma, mortality, and what it means to inhabit a body. Drawing on personal experience, she transforms narratives into sensorial works and installations that invite reflection on vulnerability, care, and human existence.
Lundbohm holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2025), where she specialised in Artistic Research and Writing, including an MFA exchange at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She also holds a BFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has received recognition through the AHC × 15. Juni Fonden 11-month development programme, the 15. Juni Fonden Honorary Award, the Poul Erik Bech Foundation Art Award, the Blix Prize (2025), and a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation (2026).