You (1964) and me (2025)
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With the series You (1964) and me (2025), Anna Amalie Richelsen explores memories within family relationships as a collective rather than individual experience. The series takes its starting point in the artist’s own apartment, which has been passed down through generations in her family. After experiencing what she intially perceived as a curse of bad luck, Richelsen began to see parallels in the experiences and memories of loss that run through her family history. For herself – and generations of women before her – needlework became a way to cope and communicate and a means of finding insight.
The centerpiece of the series is a handwoven, veil-inspired sculpture with needle felted wool piercing through the fragile material. The permanent marks left by the barbed needle can be compared to the traces left behind by previous generations. Through the photographic works Richelsen conveys a sense of intimacy intertwined with uncertainty, reflecting the ominous presence of past incidents within present moments. With the ceramic piece inspired by the apartment’s stucco and the needle felted piece inspired by the ornamental ironwork in the neighborhood, Richelsen captures a moment of time within the apartment itself and the area of Copenhagen it is located in.
