On May 24, Nikolaj Kunsthal opens the exhibition Miracle Now by British-American artist and musician ANOHNI. Works on paper, paintings and sculptures will be accompanied by a 9 channel video installation and ephemeral documents from ANOHNI’s archive.

ANOHNI first achieved global recognition with her band Antony and the Johnsons after emerging from the 1990s after-hours performance scene in New York City.

ANOHNI’s video installation, an exploration of imagery, sound and text from her 1995 play Miracle Now, will premier in the mainspace of Nikolaj Kunsthal. The upstairs gallery will feature a broad survey of ANOHNI’s works, testifying to her feel for the haptic qualities of materials: collages made out of found pieces and accumulated collections, photographs, larger scale sculptural works and encaustic paintings. Her animist reveries express emotion, knowledge of complicity and desire for transformation in the face of human-wrought ecocide.

“Does nature evolve, or does she just change? So much information can now be stored in a tiny space. Scientists have said recently that ancestral trauma changes our genome in detectable ways. I imagine that in the future we shall put a drop of water in a machine and it will reveal to us every moment that its atoms have ever experienced, and every living and inanimate body that it has ever been a part of. When I first staged the play Miracle Now in 1995, my greatest dream was that Nature would retain knowledge of everything that she had ever been. This was a basis of hope for me, in the face of eco-collapse.” – ANOHNI.

Anohni: Miracle Now is on view May 24 through August 5, 2018. For more information, click here.