Cold Sleep

'Cold Sleep' investigates the theme of cryopreservation. Bodies in thermal, yellow suits are suspended in big, circular metal structures revolving around their own axis on small islands in a desert landscape. In the sand lie craters where artificially inseminated cells divide. This “population in another dimension” await first life or a second shot at it. Stine Deja (1986, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. She has an MA from Royal College of Art, London, and a BA from Design School Kolding. Apart from a long series of solo and group exhibitions around the world, she has participated in Tranen’s touring exhibition in Russia, EXTEMPORARY: Art out of time, which was presented at the center for contemporary art NCCA Arsenal in Nizhny Novgorod in 2019 and the museum of contemporary art PERMM in Perm in 2020. The exhibition is generously supported by Danish Arts Foundation, 15. Juni Fonden, Beckett Fonden, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond and Knud Højgaards Fond.