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Artist & Works
Artist & Works
Patricia Petersen
Patricia Petersen is a Danish/Polish multidisciplinary artist working across moving
image, photography, sculpture, perforamce and text. Her work explores entanglements of (post)memory, rituals, ecologies and the body through a lens of poetic absurdity.
Patricia’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Festival Circulation(s)(FR), Arden Asbæk Gallery (DK), and Four Corners (UK). She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) and an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art. She is a member of the artist collectives Rethinking Eastern Europe and SLAWS ANEW, and currently an artist in residence at
Platform 1 Gallery.
website:patriciapetersen.com
ins: @patriciaisabel
image, photography, sculpture, perforamce and text. Her work explores entanglements of (post)memory, rituals, ecologies and the body through a lens of poetic absurdity.
Patricia’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Festival Circulation(s)(FR), Arden Asbæk Gallery (DK), and Four Corners (UK). She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) and an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art. She is a member of the artist collectives Rethinking Eastern Europe and SLAWS ANEW, and currently an artist in residence at
Platform 1 Gallery.
website:patriciapetersen.com
ins: @patriciaisabel
Leftovers (Jeg Skal Puste I Deg) (2024)
‘Leftovers’, which explores how trauma is embodied, transmitted, and carried on by new
generations, in new bodies, vessels storing memory and trauma preceding linear time. The
series is inspired by a conversation at the artist’s family dinner table, where the women
unpacked silenced gendered generational trauma sparked by a family photograph.
By working with clay, Petersen connects the ideas of bodily memory to the concept of clay
memory, a term that describes the material’s capacity to retain traces of touch and
manipulation. Each gesture, pressure, and impression is preserved within the clay’s surface.
“Jeg skal puste I deg” is from a text written the artists late friend Vibeke before her passing,
and is Norwegian for “I will breathe through you”. The words resonate as an invocation of
continuity: of breath,memory, care, and solidarity passed between bodies, across time.