OVERVIEW
Tora Schultz
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Year of Birth
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2023
1991
Denmark
palace enterprise
Working in a lineage of female consumer-critical post-minimalism, Tora Schultz (b. 1991, DK) recontextualizes everyday items with precision and humour, often in reference to gender biases haunting design of familiar objects in our physical surroundings. The ‘Eva’ sculpture is based on the unused prototype EvaRID, developed by a Swedish engineer as the first average female crash test dummy. With attention to qualities of materials, Schultz creates a frozen and motionless moment in her sculpt ...
Eva, 2022
EvaRid 50th Percentile Female crash test dummy, purple and grey auto-paint, SLS, linoleum
145 x 80 x 40 cm
Hell on Wheels, 2022
Modified Prada Stilettos, red linoleum, grey auto-paint, mdf
220 x 35 x 35 cm
Motionless, 2022
Takotsubo pot, black and purple auto-paint, mdf
220 x 35 x 35 cm
Control, 2022
Galvanized steel
120 x 180 x 60 cm
Positions, 2022
Eva Chair in bent beech by Bruno Mathsson, seatbelt, black auto-paint, mdf
Left: 130 x 70 x 50 cm, right: 90 x 70 x 50 cm
Installation view, Another Surrealism, 2022, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
The Devil’s Contract, 2021, dumbwaiter (steel, stainless steel, motor, chain), modified Prada stilettos, 400 x 45 x 50 cm
The Devil’s Contract, 2021, dumbwaiter (steel, stainless steel, motor, chain), modified Prada stilettos, 400 x 45 x 50 cm
Pinocchio (1940), 2021, found wooden school locker, stained pine wood, linoleum, hammerlack-painted steel, 200 x 40 x 34 cm
Pinocchio (1940), 2021, found wooden school locker, stained pine wood, linoleum, hammerlack-painted steel, 200 x 40 x 34 cm
Stratification, 2022, Stainless steel, ten red plastic trays, 235 x 50 x 55 cm
Wiper, 2022, print on aluminium, 79 x 125 cm each
Installation view, Stranger Inside, 2021, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
Installation view, Stranger Inside, 2021, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm