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b. 2000 Potsdam
German
based in the Meuse–Rhine Euroregion
Our world is ever-accelerating – our bodies are not.
Milena Dahl delves into the relationship between the human experience and the rapidly evolving world around us. As a highly sensitive person, Dahl perceives the world as overwhelming and abrasive, leading to a need for softer, more sensitive modes of relating. Through delicate glass, paper, and textile works, Dahl initiates sensory dialogues within installations, performances, and experimental publications.
In her performance piece "Solar System", for instance, Dahl orchestrates a silent dialogue between performers and materials, as an exercise in intuitive responding and tactile engagement. The material is chosen by its speaking quality. Glass, for instance, speaks through distortions and light reflections. It asks for care in handling and demands slow processes to be melted and reworked. Dahl's works are meant to be touched and activated by the viewer. Like her handbound book “Traversing Glass” with a scratchable cover, translucent pages and niches in which small notes are hidden.
In its slowness, fragility, and playfulness, Dahl's practice denies the demands of the modern western society. Her works are enclosed spaces that invite us to practice and imagine a utopia of connectedness.
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In addition to her work as a visual artist, Dahl also works as a curator. She focuses on slow art, immersiveness and the sociological concept of resonance in exhibition concepts