Through the years, Danish artist Eske Rex has developed a body of work where practices from architecture, art, design and craft are intertwined and unfolded within sculpture and installation. The works of art stem, despite their clear and ethereal expression, therefore from a more complex origin.
With the naked eye, some of Eske Rex’s works are perceived as quivering, through the means of which an inner tension emits a sense of the actual material’s potential. Accordingly, in Unfolded Plank, roughly sawn planks of oak wood have been cut up on the narrow segments and subsequently steamed, after which the open – and now bisected – ends are twisted apart from each other. While the opposite end continues as it had originally extended, this is now visibly altered, in the spot where the twist in the plank’s length manifests this inherent tension in the wood.