What happens when an artwork is not simply something to look at, but something to experience with your whole body?

The internationally acclaimed artist collective Numen / For Use takes over ARKEN’s Store Gallery with Tape Ishøj – a monumental, site-specific installation made from kilometres of tape. Stretched between the gallery walls, the tape forms a delicate, seemingly fragile network of lines, surfaces and organic shapes. A dreamlike structure unfolds throughout the space, inviting visitors to step inside the artwork and explore it from within.

Numen / For Use works at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, scenography and design. Since the late 1990s, the collective has explored how simple materials and precise constructions can create new ways of experiencing and inhabiting space. In Tape Ishøj, the material’s inherent properties – tension, elasticity, weight and cohesion – become central to the form of the work. Through repetition and accumulation, each new strip of tape connects with the next, gradually transforming the gallery.

Read more about the exhibition here.