The Trouble with Happiness - Tove Ditlevsen textiles The Archive of Dark is

The Archive of Dark is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two seperate yet coherent exhibitions

The first in-depth study of a monumental wall hanging—rediscovered after many years—by renowned Bauhaus artist Anni Albers

as well as contextualising what the body means to fashion

and buildings as molecular units of politics and history

The Trouble with Happiness - Tove Ditlevsen textiles The Archive of Dark isA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wifes beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happywithout ever truly