"In Troels Carlsen's exhibition Alt flyder - Everything flows - nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen's large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores. Dynamic, dancing skeletons with bodies of radiant green springy stems and lush leaves sprout blackberries and pink wildflowers, surrounded by bumblebees. Bodies, bees, flowers and fruit are interdependent in an ancient biological choreography."
"There is a current of freedom flowing through the works. Birds, flowers, ladybirds and butterflies are harbingers of transformation. The compositions are in flux. In one work, an eminent butterfly overshadows a human couple in the composition, while two blooming flowers rise above like floral fireworks. A subtle visual correction to our classic anthropocentric understanding. In Carlsen's work we are not merely co-dependent on the surrounding world; we are the same - we are change."
Flora and fauna intertwine in large tableaus painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores. Dynamic skeletons composed of radiant green stems and lush leaves sprout blackberries and pink wildflowers while bumblebees hover, presenting bodies, bees, flowers, and fruit as mutually interdependent in ancient biological choreography. Imagery of birds, ladybirds, butterflies, and blooming flowers signals transformation and freedom, with compositions in flux that visually correct classic anthropocentric views by elevating nonhuman elements above human figures. Philosophical connections to Heraclitus and Zen endorse embracing impermanence, and a long practice examines humanity's entangled coexistence with the universe and other species.
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