Danish artist Ane Henriksen has been creating pictorial wall tapestries since the 1980s. She “possesses a very rare degree of insight into how to utilize and master her medium,” observed Bodil Busk Laursen, Director of the Danish Museum of Arts & Design, Copenhagen and curator of Henriksen’s solo exhibition there, Ane Henriksen: Lady Sings the Blues. “In her pieces, there is an internal coherence, where the choice of materials, technique, and structure constitutes a most significant aspect of the work’s ultimate expression.” Her works aim to spur a range of unsettling emotions — engaging from a distance, disquieting when the details are viewed up close.
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