marie j.engelsvold

Artist statement

Marie J.Engelsvold.

I am a visual artist based in Copenhagen, working across sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and installation. My practice explores how states of consciousness—thoughts, emotions, and energies—can be translated into physical, sensuous forms.

Working primarily with textiles, yarn, ceramics, foam, wood, and found materials, I create suspended constructions composed of interlocking elements. These structures emerge through processes of connection, tension, and balance, forming spatial configurations that shift between openness and collapse. Delicate yet assertive, they hover in space as mutable, three-dimensional constellations.

Working circularly with materials, existing elements are continuously reactivated in new configurations, while newly introduced components enter into this ongoing cycle of reuse. Form does not precede the work but emerges through suspension, contingent on the tensions between materials. The process is intuitive and experimental, shaped through tactile engagement and craft-based techniques such as sewing, knitting, and assembling.

The constructions can be understood as extensions of inner states—fluid, unstable structures that reflect psychological and emotional landscapes. They resist fixed definition, oscillating between precision and indeterminacy, functioning as spaces for tension, play, and transformation.

Part of my practice unfolds outside the studio, where shifting environments and found materials become active participants. Here, the process becomes visible, and the work exists in a continuous state of becoming.