Inger Sif Heeschen works interdisciplinary in the media of ceramics, drawing, print, video, and performance. Through a series of different residencies in countries such as The Netherlands, Japan, and the United Kingdom, she has developed her ceramic practice and gained new approaches to visual language. Inger Sif Heeschen’s practice is colored by artistic research into utility objects, popular culture, and archaic image traditions and her method is close to the anthropological. She reshapes everyday objects and aestheticizes functional design. Well-known objects are used for imprints, they are enlarged and distorted and thereby placed in the border field between what is shape-investigating, humoristic, and culturally reflecting.
Ubiquitous in her works is the interest in the cultural, national, and personal tales that encapsulate everyday life. How they shape and create a people, a common story, and a narrative about the progressions of society. Collective self-perceptions are continuously up for negotiation. Inger Sif Heeschen’s works branch out into numerous references. In each their way, they all point towards the narratives we create on the foundation of the objects we surround ourselves with and the ways we understand and map our realities and stories.
Inger Sif Heeschen (1989, DK) has studied at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (BFA 2016), San Francisco Art Institute (2014), and Royal College of Art, London (MA 2022). Inger Sif Heeschen has exhibited her works at Charles Burnand Gallery, The Amber Room, and Wetherby Garden in London, Galleri Delfi in Malmo, Thorvaldsen’s Museum and The Free Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen, and at Bornholm’s Center for Arts and Crafts, among others.