Rasmus Myrup
THE VÖLVA’S BESTIARY OF BEST FRIENDS
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  • Edited by Sabo Day and Rasmus Myrup
  • Designed by Sabo Day
  • Published by s/z and Coda Press
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  • 2023, 232 pp. (colour ill.)
  • 21 × 28.5 cm, hardcover
  • Edition of 400
  • ISBN 978-87-974282-0-7
330 kr.

In The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology, as envisioned by artist Rasmus Myrup.

Making their first appearance as a series of sculptures by Myrup, the characters from this Bestiary are all seen through the lens of a Seeress – The Völva. She knows everything her folkloric friends have been through and will endure in the future. It’s a heavy burden: the workaholism of The Bog Lady, failed attempts by The Elven Girls to end the Patriarchy, Freya’s sob story, the sexual frustrations of The Stream Man and Hild’s inability to stop the war between her lover and her dad. In Myrup’s world, they have befriended each other across multiple spheres of fiction – if they don’t know each other, they at least know of each other.

Rasmus Myrup

Rasmus Myrup is an artist, based in Copenhagen. His work seeks to explore how the experience of being human is malleable – and how susceptible it is; at its worst to manipulation and at its best to change.

Sabo Day

Sabo Day is a graphic designer with an Amsterdam based studio for art direction and visual communication, in the field of contemporary art and culture.

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