I will carry this fever as a pendant

Solo exhibition, NSFW/SVILOVA, Gothenburg, January 16 - February 20, 2026

The exhibition was lit using monofrequency lighting, which emits a yellow spectrum and limits colour perception to shades of grey and black, works in normal lighting can be seen here

From the tension between fear and fascination with death, Nina Kraul Maegaard has created "I Will Carry This Fever as a Pendant". Altering our senses and mythologies of transition, she creates an alternative reality in which we find ourselves stranded in a space between light and darkness, over and under, where the ship taking us to the other side has been suspended. Our sense of time and the awaiting promise of death are temporarily dissolved. 

I will take the sun in my mouth

swallow

carrying fever as a pendant.

Time coagulating,

clotting in the strings suspended in between

/

I will take the sun in my mouth

carry it through the dark

let it board the horse’s chariot

bringing it to the ship under

morning must rise

from night

and I’m not afraid to die

and I’m not afraid to die

I will carry this fever as a pendant, 2026.

Stoneware clay, wax, water, jute, paraffin, and wood ash.

Dimensions vary, approx. 229x25x60 cm. 

Water is slowly dripping from the ship to the wax relief on the floor

Promise of death, burst, 2025

Stoneware clay, steel

Dimensions vary, approx. 220x50x60 cm, 3 pcs.

I’m not afraid to die, I’m not afraid to die, 2026.

Stoneware clay, paraffin, artist’s hair, and steel.

9x60x20 cm.