LUXURIA

Luxuria an exhibition about desire and deception. Our craving for luxurious excess and our longing for pleasure. A tribute to powerful and determined women as well as a reminder of the consequences of unbridled desire. All of the works were part of a larger narrative revolving around luxuria; sinful lust, which is one of the seven deadly sins, which the Italian theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas noted in the middle ages. With abundance, ambiguous motives, glossy crowns, amorphous jewelry and ceramic vases portraying queen Kirsten Munk, Sofie Amalie and Leonora Christine Danish artist Mie Mogensen reminds us of how extravagance is a human urge in all of us. Inspired by Rosenborg Castle, the baroque and it’s aesthetics, Mogensen plays with the medieval moral doctrine in a contemporary manner. Luxuria was on show in a small 1800s pavilion across from Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, 2019.