Dailies, Bladr, 2024

Every morning for a year, Emil Salto has drawn labyrinth patterns on the day's calendar page. Over the course of the year, the calendar pages have become a work about marking time and daily practice, about transcendence through repetition, quantity, and duration.

In the exhibition, these calendar pages are displayed, selected, and arranged according to principles of pattern recognition, without regard to their original chronology. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the world of film. “Dailies” refers to the day’s footage, the material that later forms the basis for editing the final film.

From Linus Carlsen’s exhibition text:
“In Emil Salto’s work Dailies, space and time collide on the pages of the calendar, but several different ideas of temporality also intertwine. Just as with dance, the relationships between hand, pencil, and paper are a choreography, a series of moments where the hand’s care work for time becomes apparent – the line takes care of time, stretches it out, gives it weight by insisting on remaining in the moment between hand, pencil, and paper. Getting lost in labyrinths is also to allow time to unfold, to give it space. What happens here is not the time of Event, the crisis’ articulation of a before and after, but rather the crisis of the ordinary – the feeling of a non-event that keeps occurring.”

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the City of Copenhagen, Council for Visual Arts.