Signe Ralkov (b. 1997, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen and is currently studying at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working mainly with coloured pencil on paper, she imagines herself and friends in various states of metamorphosis, portraying objects and entities as they transform.
Exploring narratives of anthropomorphism in her surroundings, she engages with questions of non-human agency. She uses snapshots from her daily life combined with found imagery, morphing the mundane with the stream of images she consumes. The primarily blue colour palette in her work alludes to the early photographic printing process called cyanotype.
In Ralkov’s practice, the reference relates to the way she experiences drawing as a play of light, shadow and time. Through personal mythology, she weaves together fantasy and reality to investigate transformation and a sense of belonging.
Signe Ralkov's work has been the feature of several exhibitions internationally, including 'I’m Ago' at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020); 'Eve presents' at Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK, 2021); 'Shedding Season' at Gallery Steinsland Berliner(Stockholm, Sweden, 2020); 'TWENTYFOUR II' at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020); 'Tales of Mere Existence' at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020); and 'No Scrubs' at HotDock Project Space (Bratislava, Slovakia, 2019).