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Camilla Thorup is driven by an interest in human beings and the human psyche as it is expressed through the timeless stories, we all have in common. Her motifs are most often animals and people. As a start, Thorup works intuitively and try to let come what may. During this process she leaves room for the subconscious; a world where logic, gravity and rationality are not ruling.

This approach results in figures who are interacting in multiple ways. They keep each other buckled down, they perform balancing acts, and they carry one another. The personality of the figures border stereotypes. They are not defined by age, class, nationality, or time, but transcend various groups that exist in our society, and in that way, Camilla Thorup’s figures represent all of us. Her sculptural works as well as in her paintings, the compositions of the figures are often not realistic, and the figures are not in our scale. in this way we see Thorup’s works more as human relations and states rather than actual positions. And the motifs seem to land between concepts such as play and seriousness, strength and fragility, love and loneliness and inevitably, stories about death and the transformation into something else.