Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen (b. 1992, Denmark) is a painter interested in embodying the logics of the more-than-human and investigating the more obscure and entangled realities of our world. Though the artist works from the tradition of baroque still life painting, with sensorial theatricality and lush details, she approaches the objects, subject matter, and the field of painting in new dimensions. Rather than regurgitating a reminder of inevitable death and decay, the artist’s paintings visualise the more challenging and complex relation we have to objects and things in this time. Hvid Petersen’s practice is a longing to step out of the human gaze, but consequentially turns the gaze back onto somatic and signified self, reminding the viewer of the inescapable interconnectedness of all life forms.
In her paintings, the cyclical and alchemical procesces of the natural world are played out together with the realised permanence of the plastic-infused contemporary material landscape. Meticulous and sublime brushstrokes slowly consume the borders drawn between the human and more than human worlds; the interconnections found therein lie deeply embedded in the consiousness of the paintings. With fragments of things, flesh and straw, a new, wobbly body emerges, or is it old? It has both baby skin and creaking joints.
The recognizable pulls the viewer in, then quickly slips away, like sand between eager fingers.
Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen is an MFA/BFA graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2019-2022) and the Swedish Academy of Realist Art (2018-2019). She has had solo shows with Galleri Nicolai Wallner (Copenhagen) and Prince Gallery (Copenhagen). Hvid Petersen’s group shows include The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen), Udstillingsstedet Q (Copenhagen), Lundtoft Kirke (Copenhagen), Galerie Protégé (New York), and Exhibition Hall, Ordos (China).
