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It may look like a jumble straight out of your attic, but peer in and you’ll find pieces dredged from a well of repression.

It looks like a wreck, yet it holds both beauty and dread

Cathie Pilkington, the British artist, has placed a sculpture of a bear-ish figure and a scowling baby high on a shelf in her cluttered, storeroom-style exhibition at Brandts in Odense. Foto: Graham Chalifour
Cathie Pilkington, the British artist, has placed a sculpture of a bear-ish figure and a scowling baby high on a shelf in her cluttered, storeroom-style exhibition at Brandts in Odense. Foto: Graham Chalifour
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It is after a week with my family in a rented summer house in Mols that I arrive at Brandts in Odense.

Mols, with its hills scented with scorched heather near Trehøje. With the greedy thickets whose branches, laden with unripe raspberries and blackberries, promise a future harvest.

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