Exhibition period: Saturday, January 18, 2025 – Sunday, August 3, 2025.

The sixth sorrow – sevenfold pietà with angel and deviations

Horsens Art Museum presents SIGNA for the first time with the total installation The Sixth Sorrow – sevenfold Pietá with angel and deviations. The starting point for the project is the mother figure as a central figure in our understanding of gender and care.
The work takes its clear starting point from SIGNA’s general sensual and spatial installations, where the boundary between fiction and reality is fluid and where the viewer’s usual perception is often challenged. The exhibition project will be Horsens Art Museum’s biggest exhibition venture to date. The Sixth Sorrow – sevenfold Pietá with angel and deviations  comprehensive soundscape is created by the Elias Gottstein, Christian Bo Johansen og Danscher Koret. 

The total installation is built on the basis of kitchen tableaux, as well as constructions and accumulations of old bed linen, curtains and towels. In these, SIGNA has created a number of variations on the classic medieval Pietá motif (Mary sitting with the dead body of Jesus). These Pieta representations are created from so-called private materials such as hair, bones and used textiles. While other parts of the installation contain emotional birth and nursing room tableaux, with a clear reference to ethnographic dioramas. With The Sixth Sorrow – sevenfold pietá with angel and deviations  SIGNA focuses on what spells, superstitions and the notion of female sacrifice mean, as well as contemporary and historical customs and practical measures around birth and motherhood are explored.

These Pieta productions are created from so-called private materials such as hair, bones and used textiles. While other parts of the installation contain emotional birth and nursing room tableaus, with a clear reference to ethnographic dioramas.
With The Sixth Sorrow – sevenfold Pietá with angel and deviations , SIGNA focuses on what spells, superstitions and the notion of female sacrifice mean, as well as exploring contemporary and historical customs and practical measures around birth and motherhood.

The exhibition is generously supported by Statens Kunstfond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Beckett Fonden, Augustinus Fonden and Familien Hede Nielsens Fond.

Photo credits: Erich Goldmann