Platform * Emma Rosenzweig x Olivia Turner

Three women retreat to a remote summer house in the countryside. Each of them is coming to the end of a relationship, and together they try to make sense of lives that suddenly feel unfamiliar. Surrounded by forests, wetlands and open fields, they move between intimate conversations, old memories and unsettling dreams. 

As darkness falls, a mysterious man appears in the landscape, watching them from a distance. Gradually, the boundaries between the women’s inner lives and the world around them begin to blur. They are forced to confront not only the man outside, but also what they have learned to fear, desire and endure.

Breakdown and transformation
The film “HOLE” revolves around loss, transformation and the structures that shape how women see themselves and one another. In the story, the women imagine what the world might look like if they inhabited it entirely on their own terms, without men. Yet an unknown shadow follows them, observing from afar and forcing them to confront what they are trying to escape.

Between them, a growing sense of recognition and care begins to emerge. Their individual experiences and anger gradually develop into a collective strength – one they can no longer ignore.

Analogue film between skin, landscape and shadow
The film “HOLE” is the exhibition’s central work. Here, the limitations of black-and-white 16mm film are used deliberately as an artistic device. Its grainy images blur the boundaries between skin, landscape and shadow, giving the narrative an intimate yet unstable quality. The familiar continually slips into the surreal, while fragmented conversations move between poetry and everyday speech.

In the Platform project space, the film is projected within tactile, velvet-lined walls. The film’s gaze is extended into the surrounding space, enveloping the audience. At the heart of the work is a tension between the vulnerability and unease produced by the male gaze experienced by the film’s three central characters, and the strength and primal anger that gradually emerges among the women.

"HOLE" thus becomes a story both of losing one’s footing and of finding it again – together.

The film’s music is composed by musician and composer Cæcilie Trier, who releases the title track Pavane through the record label 15 love to coincide with the exhibition opening.

Read curator Olivia Turner’s exhibition text here (UK version on page 2).

HOLE is on view in Nikolaj Kunsthal’s Platform project space from 9 October to 15 November 2026. The opening takes place on Thursday 8 October, 16:00–19:00, with Loke Rahbek and Frederik Valentin behind the decks. Free cold beers from Depanneur and alcohol-free electrolyte drinks from Dansevand will be available for the early arrivals.

The exhibition is supported by Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond and FAKE Foundation. The Platform project space is made possible with support from Det Obelske Familiefond.