Martina Enevold

Sculpting bodies, movement and wearables,

Prior to studying my MA at The Royal College of Art, I have worked interdisciplinary across the fields of design and performance arts with dance, choreography, styling, costume- and set design across Denmark, The UK and The Faroe Islands.

I am educated as a fashion designer, as I have always been drawn towards the human body and identity, but my work has become increasingly dispatched from the human in a traditional sense, as I find new ways of working with shapes and creating narratives that raise questions.

My background with theatre and performance is evident in the way I use narratives as the frame for my work, and as a means to communicate my point of view - and my intimate memory of bodily movement and choreography is translated in the shapes, that I sculpt; always with sense of movement frozen in time.

Black and white image of Martina working on the sculpture - hammering aluminium sheets on top of a log of tree.

Through my graduate project "The Trees Declared War", I aim to give agency to the trees, as representatives of nature, and allow them to fight back against the violence performed on them by humans.

I am positioning myself as an ally with the trees, against humanity, in a speculative war between species.

The goal is not to inflict physical violence, but to use the imagery of violence to pose as a quiet threat, inviting the viewer to consider their own position.

The aim of the project is to question assumptions concerning violence, control and ownership over other species as well as the idea of civilized><savage, us><other.

The work shown is part of an ongoing project, placing weapon like structures on trees of woodland, parks and forests, to allow for personal encounters for those who may discover it.

The weapons are gently wrapped around the trees to serve as protection against potential threats and left there to invite the tree to eventually grow around and hold on to the weapon.