Charlotte Thrane at DISPLAY

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Published: 13 January 2026

Charlotte Thrane's solo exihibiton at DISPLAY in Parma.

Charlotte Thrane: Everest Life  13 December, .2025 – 25 January 2026 DISPLAY, Parma

Pleasure, quietness, wellness, rest, surrender, immersion: everything slips away as the tubs are drained. And yet the traces, impressions of bodies and memories of skin remain. Past lives condense in the accumulation of these discarded shells — once called "Dream", "Tahiti", "Serenity", "Eden", the onomastics of a prefab luxury now returning as a muted echo. Objects once intimate are now exposed and overstated, reduced to pure mass and volumes, overturning and erasing any reference to well-being.    Charlotte Thrane combines multiple tubs into a single body, elevating them to simulacra of technological well-being and soundness — landmarks for innovative design industries, promises of comfort, machines of pleasure. By reducing the tubs to essential geometries, she generates an abstraction of both sculptural and painterly elements: voids and reliefs, soft lines and bulging edges, their glossy candor lost beneath the dust and grime of suspended time, the residue of their prolonged disuse, and thin strands of hair