Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen's practice unfolds at the intersection of technology and class, approaching the body as a site shaped by overlapping economic and digital systems. In sculptures, CGI animations, videos, and installations, she examines how industries such as pornography, pharmaceuticals, and technology produce, regulate, and commodify bodies in contemporary capitalism. Central to her work is the exploration of the conditions under which bodies are modeled, circulated, and consumed. On a material level, her installations often stage a tension between the handmade and the industrial. Sculptural elements – fiberglass molds, wooden figures assembled from multiple parts, metallic structures – reflect the logic of mass production, yet hover between prototype and product, subject and commodity. In parallel, moving images and animations extend these themes into virtual space, where questions of self-determination, agency, and representation increasingly become problematic.

Hansen's work insists on the intertwining of desire and labor. Whether addressing sex robots, pharmaceutical regimes, or the conditions of artistic production itself, she demonstrates how forms of intimacy are instrumentalized within broader systems of exploitation. In doing so, the boundaries between human and machine become increasingly difficult to maintain.