SILENCIO

Renowned creatives Orit Elhanati and Danielle Siggerud presented Silencio — a rare and intimate showcase of their works, conceived as a curated encounter between object, space, and sensibility.

Set within a historic residence at Kongens Nytorv, the exhibition unfolded inside one of Denmark’s most iconic listed buildings. While the surrounding district stands on the cusp of profound transformation, the mansion remained, for a moment, a fleeting instance suspended in time.

Unveiled for the first time were Elhanati’s bronze objects, offering a new dimension to her artistic language. In dialogue, a reimagined edition of Siggerud’s iconic Mattina Desk was presented – in a material that deepened its architectural presence and accentuated its sculptural stillness.

Silencio was not, at its core, an exhibition about a desk or objects in the traditional sense. It’s about presence. About being in dialogue with a space that holds more than three centuries of time. The Mattina Desk was simply a new guest, one that doesn’t seek to dominate the room, but rather to attune itself to it.

The true subject of the exhibition is the architecture itself: the weight of its silence, the patina of its memory and the painted ceilings that still hold the gesture of the artist’s hand. We were not here to decorate, but to listen. To tell.
To allow a single, carefully placed object to amplify the essence of the space, not interrupt it.

In that way, the Mattina Desk becomes a kind of punctuation mark. A pause. A moment of reflection within a larger, historic sentence.

This collaboration with Orit Elhanati is rooted in the same sensibility. Orits work was elemental and intimate; bronze pieces shaped as if by memory itself. Danielles was a desk re-seen, not reinvented. A continuation rather than a debut. What brought them together is not contrast, but resonance.

This was not merely an exhibition, but a sensory experience: an uncompromising narrative of materiality, emotion, and form, shaped by two voices, two practices, and one shared vision.

Photography: Christian Møller Andersen