Suspended Forms and Spaces I, an exhibition by Victor Chakravarty, consists of an intermedial exploration of the now defunct medium of communication: the letter. Through photographs, sculptures and a video installation, the artist examines the spatial qualities of the letter, as well as the particular structure that existed around it. Central to the exhibition is the question of what Danes gave up when the letter ceased to exist at the end of 2025 — what kind of social space disappeared, and what type of language vanished? The exhibition’s investigation revolves around the letter as a cultural and social medium, as well as the concrete, physical aspect of communication that is now disappearing.
The exhibition is based on the artist’s archive from the period between 2007 and 2025, during which Chakravarty wrote and sent more than a thousand letters. In 2007, when Facebook and other digitally based communication systems began to dominate personal and social communication, he decided to work with a medium—the letter—that was slowly disappearing from the world. His interest was not only in working with a culture that humanity was historically deviating from, but also in the premise of working with a medium in collapse. PostNord’s decision to discontinue letter delivery after 400 years, provides an example of how a medium can suddenly become impossible because the infrastructure surrounding it disappears.
Suspended Forms and Spaces is an exhibition in two parts.
The first part, Suspended Forms and Spaces I, takes place at Odense Central Library. The second part, Suspended Forms and Spaces II, takes place at DOKK1, Aarhus.
The exhibition opens on the 1st of June at 15h. On the occasion of the opening a talk will take place between Art Historian Theis Vallø Madsen and Victor Chakravarty.
The exhibition at Odense Central Library is open between 1 June – 1 July 2026 and has been supported by: Øernes Kunstfond, The Danish Arts Foundation and Ernst B. Sund Fonden.