We are proud of our collaboration with CHART and have, together with the talented Swedish artist Arvida Byström, represented by Gallery Steinsland Berliner, developed a selection of products for all CHART staff.
CHART Staff T-shirt & Totebags
The Swedish multidisciplinary artist Arvida Byström has left her mark on two classic Mads Nørgaard - Copenhagen products: a t-shirt and a tote bag. The design, titled Womb Envy, is directly inspired by the German psychoanalyst Karen Horney's counter-concept to Sigmund Freud's Penis Envy, where Karen instead suggests that men envy women's ability to give birth.
Through what Arvida describes as a less essentialist gendered reading of this concept today, one could argue that anyone who creates something, for example anthropomorphic art and especially AI, could be argued to be a form of womb envy.
In this sense, creating art could be interpreted as an act of womb envy.
The t-shirt and totebag are a part of a collaboration between Mads Nørgaard – Copenhagen, Arvida Byström, and the CHART art fair, which takes place in Copenhagen from august 29 to september 1. Read more about this year's CHART programme here.
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