Thresholders, Anna-Lisa Thomson till Minne Scholarship Exhibition, Uppsala Konstmuseum, November 2025 - Januari 2026.
A seven-part sculptural installation that explores transition, ambiguity, and the architectural language of space.
At its core, Thresholders consists of 50:1 scale replicas of three small plastic corner modules from Hornbach, used to round off skirting boards. Originally too large to pass through the doorways of the museum, the three corner sculptures were cut into seven smaller pieces. The act of “cutting corners”, typically implying doing something in the quickest, cheapest, or easiest way, often by skipping steps, ignoring rules or reducing quality, here becomes a literal and transformative gesture, where functional replicas are turned into ambiguous, autonomous forms.
Now scattered throughout the exhibition space, the corner pieces explore what it means to cross a threshold, physically, architecturally, and metaphorically, where visitors are invited to move among them. No longer bound to the edges of the room, the corners are instead placed within it, turning the room inside out to challenge how we perceive and navigate space.
Thresholders occupies an in-between space: between form and function, between what was and what might be. They are not just on a threshold, they are thresholders: objects in motion, bearing their own meaning, open to interpretation, and suggestive of transformation.
Participating artists:
Ingrid Jacobsen, Klara Helin, Ailin Mirlashari, Kayo Mpoyi, Therese Norgren
