Press voices about the exhibition

“Can art be this magical and beautiful without becoming banal? Yes indeed – Kiki Smith’s visual world grows wildly and wondrously from threads spun of vitality, darkness, and mysticism. Together with Vivian Suter’s painting exhibition in the Turbine Hall, Moderna Museet Malmö has laid the groundwork for a magnificent summer of art.” (Sydsvenskan)

“What more than anything inspired Smith to begin working with weaving – and what has been her greatest artistic experience – is a series of late medieval tapestries in Angers depicting the Apocalypse. But in Kiki Smith’s work, destruction and life go hand in hand; the tapestries are not depictions of catastrophe, but rather reminders of our connection to the cosmos. I may miss the earlier Smith, but this is urgent and beautiful art.” (Expressen)

“I am particularly drawn to the large predators: the eagles, the wolves. In Kiki Smith’s work, they are not threatening, but observant and in harmony. These motifs contain a kind of understanding between animals and humans. And it is built on a language, on a sensitivity that goes beyond economic transactions or other forms of power. I have a feeling this is the most important lesson of the 20th century – that it is possible to create art, and to build societies, with reciprocity as the guiding principle.” (Kulturnyheterna SVT)

“Kiki Smith, with her art, shows that life is only on loan and is part of a biological temporality within a larger cosmic question about circular life.
It is cosmic art that really wants to place humans as an element in the world, on par with pheasants, mountains, and astral phenomena. But then there is also the drawing of a hare with long legs, smeared with the kind of glitter often found in a modeling room. Both unserious and serious at the same time, like when you make sperm cells in mouth-blown glass. A simultaneously serious and silly artistic blow-job.” (Politiken)