Terracotta. L 17 m. B 80 cm.

With Save Our Souls, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang present a series of terracotta objects that together communicate the distress signal SOS in Morse code. The piece is emblematic of the artistic duo’s work. It is engaging and riddle-like, often referring to issues of national identity and how social and political structures are established and reproduced in society. In Save Our Souls, the bricks and the terracotta bowls refer to the familiar—to home and family. Food storage vessels and building bricks are also the most fundamental components in the building up of a civilization or a city. The work also sounds the alarm for a crisis that extends beyond the here and now—the whole planet is in a state of crisis that threatens even its smallest units. How can we build a new, sustainable world that inspires hope instead of fear?

Save Our Souls is part of the Malmö Art Museum collection.

Included in the group show Sustainable Societies for the Future at Malmö Art Museum and EXPO Chicago 2021. 
Sustainable Societies for the Future is an extensive collaboration between Malmö Konstmuseum and Expo Chicago, US. The exhibition is part of Art 2030, an international organization that unites art with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainability and its seventeen Global Goals.
Artists: Catrin Andersson, Christian Falsnaes, Tue Greenfort, Max Guy, Ilkka Halso, Minna Henriksson, Ane Hjort Guttu, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Ingela Ihrman, Toril Johannessen & Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Mattingly, Floating Museum, (P)Art of the Biomass, Cheryl Pope, Sean Raspet, Michael x. Ryan, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Sophie Tottie, Wang & Söderström and Amanda Williams.

Photo: Helene Toresdotter/Malmö Konstmuseum + Hesselholdt & Mejlvang.