A Million Times and More (solo exhibition)

2024-2025

Excerpt from the introduction to the exhibition at Wilson Saplana (DK):

“… In Hannah Toticki’s first solo exhibition at Wilson Saplana Gallery, she focuses on the concept of interconnectedness. It is manifested in a series of ambitious works, the largest being a water-installation titled A Million Times And More consisting of a network of water pipes and kitchen sinks. The water flows rhythmically at programmed intervals, as if the taps were being opened and closed by invisible hands. The installation thus becomes both a sound work as well as a physical sculpture.

Toticki’s works can argueably be seen as a counter-image to the extraordinary and/or edited, which fills most of the media images and the platforms of social media. Instead they offer a focus on the concrete, physical, and intimate everyday life, which actually takes up most of our time, but often becomes a smaller and somewhat overlooked part of the public conversation. Everyday life, and ultimately life itself, instead becomes a task that simply needs to be managed. Hannah Toticki has a keen eye for the challenges of everyday life, both within the home and in our work lives, as well as how individual actions are influenced by larger societal structures. Alongside Toticki’s social criticism lies empathy, humor, and poetry. She has the ability to reflect us both critically and caringly, insisting on placing the individual within a community.

In the magazine Art in America, senior editor Emily Watlington describes Hannah Toticki’s works as ”life hacks”: “8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of leisure” is a slogan coined in the 19th century by a man who didn’t have to feed himself or otherwise do much “adulting.” He had a wife to do all the housework for him. Times have changed, but the eight-hour workday model persists. […] To capture this familiar feeling – of needing to do several things at once, of there not being enough hours in the day, of commuting in a state of zombielike exhaustion – the Danish artist Hannah Toticki has created a series of [works ] that double as life hacks.” – Emily Watlington, 2023

Photos by Anders Sune Berg