hand-carved recycled XPS foam relief, installed at Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital as part of FORSTADIER / PRECURSORS. The work is based on a sketch generated using locally run AI models powered by certified green energy. Installation photo: Morten K Jacobsen. Curated by Morten K Jacobsen.
The title and carving rewrite the labour movement slogan “ENIGHED GØR STÆRK” — Unity Makes Strong — carried on Danish trade union banners from around 1900 and still in circulation today. Replacing “Enighed” (unity) with “Diagnose” shifts the slogan from the language of collective solidarity into the language of the contemporary Danish welfare state, where access to resources, treatment and support increasingly depends not on citizenship or need alone, but on holding the right diagnosis. A diagnosis is no longer only a medical description — it is also a key. The carved letters hold that tension without resolving it.
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 hospital, the sign accompanies the video LEDDYRSOMSORG / ARTHROPOD CARE, full-scale sculptures and leaflets. 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
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