Danish artist Marina Rønnow Honoré calls herself an analog printer. Her one chosen medium is the plastic perler bead, a craft material left over from childhood. The tube beads come in barely seventy colors. Within that narrow palette she prints images, laying the beads down one at a time, by hand. Up close there is only a blur of pixels and no way to tell what you are looking at, but step back a few paces and an object appears, sharp as a photograph.
What she brings back are things everyone has held at least once. A keyring and a pair of headphones, swollen to enormous scale, hang from the body. Everyday objects like IKEA's blue shopping bag and a supermarket plastic sack of fruit pass through tens of thousands of small labors and emerge as art. With the same material she once pressed flat under an iron as a child, she prints objects that carry that childhood inside them. Do you still hold that sensation in your own hands?
What she brings back are things everyone has held at least once. A keyring and a pair of headphones, swollen to enormous scale, hang from the body. Everyday objects like IKEA's blue shopping bag and a supermarket plastic sack of fruit pass through tens of thousands of small labors and emerge as art. With the same material she once pressed flat under an iron as a child, she prints objects that carry that childhood inside them. Do you still hold that sensation in your own hands?
FAQ
What materials does Marina Rønnow Honore use to create her works?
Marina Rønnow Honore uses plastic pony beads, a childhood craft material, as her sole medium. She prints images by placing tube beads one by one in seventy colors, transforming everyday objects into pixel art form.
How do Marina Rønnow Honore's works appear up close?
Up close, they appear as blurry pixels where the image is indiscernible, but stepping back a few paces reveals objects sharp as photographs. Thanks to the analog output method of placing beads individually, image clarity changes with viewing distance.
What objects does Marina Rønnow Honore turn into artworks?
She recreates everyday objects like key bundles, headphones, IKEA blue shopping bags, and grocery store plastic bags filled with fruit. All are familiar items we've held at least once, enlarged to monumental scale and worn on the body or exhibited.
