Books by Amalie Smith

An artist in her thirties weaves and unravels connections between the loom and the computer, DNA and technology, dreams and decisions

Amalie Smiths bog De næste 5000 dage tager afsæt i en dobbelt forelskelse – i et du og i en række grundlæggende fænomener som tid, rum, lys, afstand, erindring, fordobling og forfølgelse. Herfra breder den sig ud i seks dele, som på forskellig vis undersøger forholdet mellem det prøvende og det eksakte, mellem subjekt og videnskab.En hybridroman med fotografi og tekst, som trækker på flere genrer og placerer sig imellem dem. Det er karakteristisk for bogen, at den ikke bliver enten-eller, men lader fænomener og relationer dobbelteksponere i et både-og.

Recently unearthed from the ground, Marble leaves her new lover in Copenhagen and travels to Athens. The city is overflowing with colour, steam and fragrance, cats cry like babies at night, the economic crisis is raging. In this volatile landscape, Marble grasps the world by exploring its immediate surfaces. Capturing specks of colour on ancient sculptures in the Acropolis Museum with an infrared camera, she simultaneously traces the pioneering sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who spent several months in the same place 110 years earlier. Far away from her husband and children, Carl-Nielsen showed that Archaic sculptures were originally painted in bright colours – a feat which meant defying Victorian gender roles and jeopardising her marriage.Amalie Smith ignites everyday encounters into sites of revelation and metamorphosis. Sensuous and electric, yet admirably forensic in its approach to mineral life, Marble is a galvanizing novel about the materials life is made of, about korai and sponge diving, about looking and looking again, written in a spare and pellucid style.