Still Points and Shared Lines
Marie Herwald Hermann (DK)
5 November – 12 December 2026
Preview opening on Thursday, 5 November at 16.00-19.00
Peach Corner is pleased to host the first solo exhibition of works by Marie Herwald Hermann since her return to Denmark in 2025 after living and working in the United States and England for more than 20 years.
Marie Hermann’s practice draws from the history of the domestic and from the memory of ordinary things. She creates imaginary environments that both embrace and resist utility, constructing still lifes from what she describes as the ‘Unspectacular’: the quiet, repetitive actions through which everyday life is maintained.
Objects carry traces of use and choreography – the sequence of movements involved in placing, picking up, arranging, using and replacing them. They become extensions of the body, accumulating a library of small gestures. These are rituals but not rituals in a religious sense nor practices of self-care. They are the rituals of ordinary life: the necessary actions that hold things together so that other, more spectacular things can happen. They point towards forms of labour that are often hidden, unnoticed or taken for granted.
In Still points and shared lines, ceramic vessels are arranged on shelves alongside wooden sculptures, resin objects, glass and silicone. Shapes and colours recur across materials, creating echoes and correspondences between individual works. Nothing exists entirely on its own. Each object enters into a relationship with another, and it is through these groupings, intervals and spaces between things that the works come into being.
The walls of the project room extend this slippage. Painted in monochromatic vertical white stripes, alternating between high gloss and matte, they appear almost uniform at first. As the viewer moves through the space, however, the difference becomes perceptible. What initially seems static begins to shift. The room itself becomes an active participant in the installation, a surface that changes according to position, light and movement.
Hermann understands herself as much as an arranger as a maker. Her installations operate like fragments cut from a larger, constantly shifting timeline – small snapshots taken before the situation changes again. To arrange is to temporarily hold a moment in place, to make a memory of something that has already begun to move on.
Following her BA from the University of Westminster, Marie Herwald Hermann spent four years as studio manager for Edmund de Waal before doing her MA at the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited widely internationally, and her works are represented in many important public and private collections. Since 2018, Marie Herwald Hermann has held an associate professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
