Katrine Skovsgaard is a Danish artist working between Copenhagen and London. She is the recipient of the Sven Dalsgaard Honorary Award for young experimental artists, HIGH Prize of Creative Excellence and the 15th of June Foundations Honorary Award. Her work investigates ways to communicate subjective sensory and emotional experience, especially those personal experiences we do not talk about and those we do not notice. Her research is based on art practice and located at the intersection of understandings of shame, chronic pain, sharing and mutual care. Her work has been exhibited at Brandts, c4 Projects, Copenhagen Art Week, Kunsthal Aarhus, Middelfart Museum and The Psychiatry in Southern Denmark, Montez Press Radio, Sorø Art Museum, Vollsmose Culture House and elsewhere.

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‘Touch is the first sense that we develop. It is an incredibly nuanced and varied sense that can mean something different to all of us. With touch, we can move from inconsequential to salient in an instant. There are many qualities and emotions connected to touch, and it can be both comforting, uncomfortable, intimate and connecting. At Figueretes I will explore stories of and attitudes towards touch through reading, writing and an art practice that focuses on audio, photography and tactile materials, such as fabrics. I will be interviewing and co-creating with people around the island who work primarily with their hands, collecting emotional stories and attitudes towards touch.’