LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE is a hand-painted foam sign and 3D-printed sculpture, installed at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. The sign bears the title in Gothic lettering, extended with antennae and legs. In front of it, a large blue woodlouse lies curled and sleeping — a creature that has stepped out of the video and into the hospital corridor. Installation photo: Morten K Jacobsen. Curated by Morten K Jacobsen. The woodlouse was designed using Qwen image and Hunyuan3D algorithms, then printed in modified maize starch across 45 parts on small 3d printers in the studio, assembled by hand and painted in water-based urethane paint. It works the way an image works — you can see what it is supposed to be, and at the same time it is clearly something else: too few legs, a shell that doesn’t match any living species, a blue that belongs to no woodlouse. Close enough to be recognisable, different enough to stay unsettled. A near-woodlouse rather than a woodlouse. Which is perhaps fitting: the real woodlouse is itself a kind of near-creature — a crustacean that left the sea and learned to live on land, carrying the memory of saltwater in a body built for somewhere else. The algorithms prompted the form; the hands that assembled it followed. FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS is a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg (@askweee), circling the iconography of the healthcare system — the clinical room, the language of care, the institutional forms — with detours into bias in language models, datasets, isolation and alienation. At the gallery, the sculpture meets the video LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE, which imagines a future healthcare system staffed by enormous blue woodlice in place of automation and AI. On view until 11 April 2026. Ringsted Galleriet, Bøllingsvej 15 — open Saturdays 13:00–16:00 or by appointment. Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital, Bøllingsvej 30 — open weekdays 08:00–15:00 or by appointment. 4100 Ringsted. ringstedgalleriet.dk @ringstedgalleriet #FORSTADIER #PRECURSORS #FrihedLighedOgSymptom #WelfarestateMyths #SurrealSocialRealism #Hunyuan3D #ringstedsygehus #ringsted @statenskunstfond @augustinusfonden @nycarlsbergfondet #lo
