Nina Kraul Maegaard, artist, konstnär, ceramic artist, keramikkonstnär, keramikkonst, ceramic art, svensk konstnär, dansk konstnär, swedish artist, danish artist.

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


The work draws, among other things, on the ship as a recurring symbol in death mythologies and burial rituals, from Nordic interments where the boat functioned as a carrier between worlds, to the notion of a journey through water as a passage to the underworld. The work is an anxious attempt to alter and manipulate the mythology by suspending the ship in its passage between life and death, allowing time to temporarily coagulate