Street Print

Anne Fabricius Møller.

23/10/14. (Sala 313)

Anne Fabricius Møller began to collect lost and abandoned objects more than ten years ago. The objects in the Street Print collection were found over a period of one and a half years.

Street Print is the result of Anne’s recording of people’s losses, her own bicycle rides around the city of Copenhagen and her collector’s gene. Many of the objects have been run over, and they are coarse and filthy, but their imprints are remarkably poetic and delicate. The fine quality of the fabric strikes a contrast to the coarse grey asphalt where they were found.

Street Print is a 1.5 x 10 metre length of cotton satin with prints of the objects found in the street. The prints are reproduced in a composition with a central axis and a certain degree of pattern symmetry around the axis. The composition was inspired by English etchings from the 1600s depicting natural objects in more or less symmetrical compositions.

There is a print of each object. The colour is kept close to the original. If the original has two colours the print is made in a blend of the two colours in the same ratio as in the original objects. The actual found object is included as a repetition of the print version, like a twin on an independent ‘track’.