Denmark

In order to produce his work Les Quatre Saisons de Moniteur belge (1996), Denmark collected all the Belgian legal pub­li­ca­tions during one year, then printed them and finally compressing the whole into the jaws of four metal clamps. The thin pages of the legislation disappeared behind the unbreakable volume resulting from the action of the vice; only clouds of black lines, visible on the edges, still bear witness to the written word. The law stifles, the vise clamps, the human work is compressed in the tool and the whole becomes a sculpture. The work of Denmark presents its critique in a playful approach, here the inter­pre­ta­tions are free: one might easily think of the illeg­i­bil­i­ty of legal jargon or, mate­ri­al­is­ing the weight of admin­is­tra­tive authority. The meaning fluctuates, it is not fixed; at the same time intel­lec­tu­al appre­hen­sion gives way to sensory uneasiness, the abundance of words disappears in form, weight, and matter.