Live Performance: Philosophical Photoshoot
The gallery invites you to a new photographic format – on Valentine’s Day!
Romeo & Juliet meets Kierkegaard — deconstructed through Shodō ink, philosophy, and analogue photography.
As part of the “Emotional Underscore” exhibition programme, Kim Wyon stages a live Philosophical Photoshoot centred on a performative deconstruction of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. During the shoot, the printed book is subjected to Shodō ink brushing, physically transforming the canonical love narrative.
Throughout the performance, Wyon delivers a live talk in which Shakespeare’s lines are juxtaposed with Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on love, desire, and despair. The event unfolds as a hybrid of lecture, ritual, and photographic process.
Visitors are invited to actively participate by contributing their own emotional language — words, gestures, associations, and physical objects such as paper hearts or items they bring with them — which become part of the evolving set and the final photographic material. The images are captured in black and white using an analogue Hasselblad camera, and the resulting visual and material traces remain in the gallery as part of the ongoing exhibition installation.
Valentine’s Day
Saturday 14 February
11:00–12:00
Free admission
Former workshops and collaborative events:
Polaroid Transfer Workshop
Saturday 24 January | 10:00–13:00
(Sold out)
Learn how to create your own Polaroid emulsion lift in our cosy gallery. This hands-on, analogue image technique involves transferring an image from a Polaroid instant print onto paper. We’ll experiment with shaping and forming images, creating fleeting memories and dreamy landscapes.
Open to everyone — no photography experience required. Bring a few digital images on your phone if you’d like to work with your own material (a simple snapshot is perfect). Motifs will also be available. If you bring your own Polaroids, they should be freshly shot on i-Type, 600 or SX-70 film.
Jess Lycoops guides you through the process with individual support. You’ll go home with your own small pieces of analogue art.
Location: Dark Gallery CPH, Ryesgade 103B, DK-2100 Copenhagen
Price: DKK 250 (materials + coffee/tea included)
Max: 8 participants
Cyanotype Workshop
Sunday 25 January | 10:00–14:00
(Sold out!)
Dive into the deep blue tones of cyanotype printing and create light-sensitive prints on recycled textiles. The workshop begins with a short introduction, followed by time to experiment and develop your own prints.
Cyanotype is a slow, tactile analogue printing process that depends on daylight. During the day, there will be a one-hour break while prints are left to expose in the sun.
Led by architect Marina Holst, whose exhibition Shaped by the Sea used cyanotype to explore the ocean and its plant life.
All materials are provided. Seaweed will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own plants or motifs. No experience needed — the focus is on process, sensory experience and curiosity.
Location: Dark Gallery CPH, Ryesgade 103B, DK-2100 Copenhagen
Price: DKK 400
Max: 7 participants