In his new series of works Untitled (Bichos) (2024), Kasper Akhøj documents the weekly conservation protocol for Lygia Clark’s Bichos–also known as Critters–a series of hinged, unstable sculptures created in aluminum by the Brazilian artist beginning in 1959. Untitled (Bichos) includes a series of analogue, black and white photographs, hand-printed by the artist, taken over the summer of 2024 in the conservation laboratories of Pinacoteca de São Paulo, where Clark’s Bichos were on show in the exhibition Lygia Clark: Project for a Planet.

With Untitled (Bichos) Akhøj continues his practice of complicating the history and theory of mid-twentieth century modernism by documenting the processes of preservation, displacement, replication and alteration through which works of art, architecture and design are transmitted over time.