One of my favorite pieces in the show, Invitation to Love, is a mountain of 299 pink cardboard doughnut boxes. The educational director explained that Opdøl drew inspiration from the tv show Twin Peaks. All the boxes were specifically ordered from the US and are a comment on consumerism. Our guide talked about how the artist would eat all these doughnuts while she put the show together, feeling a sense of shame as she tried to hide the boxes in the trash so the neighbors wouldn't see. Along with the main instillation of the 299 boxes, there was a single framed one, unfolded and laid flat in the frame entitled Pilot. It's laid out and lit like a blueprint.
Another of my favorites from the show, The Necessary Lie, is a bronze casting of 54 doughnuts on hand crafted wooden and glass tables. Casting doughnuts in bronze makes something temporary into something permanent and lasting. Coupled with the lambda prints of enlarged photographs of abandoned buildings being overtaken by nature, it is an interesting contrast of permanent becoming impermanent and impermanent being immortalized.
Our other stop for the day was St. Canice's Cathedral. Built in the 6th century as an ecclesiastical compound, Kilkenny was named after the church. Services have been held at St. Canice's for the past 800 years. The oldest part of the compound is the Round Tower, and is one of only two round towers that the public are allowed to climb in Ireland.
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