A TIME OF ONE'S OWN / SIN EGEN TID
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Kunstmuseum Brandts
”A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf famously states in A Room of One’s Own. But what about the necessity of having a time of one’s own, this project asks with a focus on three women artists from Funen: Alhed Larsen, Anna Syberg and Christine Swane. As housewives and mothers working from home, lack of time for artistic production connects the women. Through theories of feminism, phenomenology and Hannah Arendt’s concept of modernity and human activity, this project examines the importance of time in their artistic production; time both as an objectively measurable amount of hours per day and as subjective experiences. It aims to show how the artists visualise ‘a time of one’s own': how they process their lack of time in their art through choices of self-referential subjects such as flowers, cultivated gardens, decorated spaces, and their own art, but also through sensuously capturing moments of creation and of aesthetic experience.
Research Education (PhD) / Fellowships / Award