ABOUT
On 4 September, Dragør Havnegalleri opens a curated exhibition with Annette Falk Lund and Suzana Profeta.
Two artists from very different backgrounds – Annette, who grew up in the GDR, and Suzana, born in Brazil – who have both made Denmark their home. Though they work in different media and with different themes, their works meet in what connects us as human beings.
Human Nature is an exhibition about the human being, seen through two life stories, two artistic languages and two different ways of looking at the world.
Practical information
📍 Dragør Havnegalleri, Strandgade 36, Dragør, Denmark, 2791
🗓️ 4–10 September 2026 | Open 13–18
🥂 Opening reception 4 September, 16–18
🎙️ Artist Talk 5 September from 14
Annette Falk Lund
Annette takes her starting point in women’s lives, experience and identity. Through the narrative power of painting she explores the figures searching for their place in the world – and the love and empathy that connect us as human beings.
Visit the website: aflworks.falklund.dk
Suzana Profeta
Suzana explores the gap between how we are perceived – by others and by ourselves – and who we actually are. Through works that are by turns grotesque and painfully honest, she examines how the gaze of society can shape self-perception, and at times create the need to protect who we really are.
Visit the website: profeta.dk
“For most of history,
Anonymous was a woman.”
— Virginia Woolf
A general encyclopaedia in six volumes. 95% of the people pictured are men. Women are barely mentioned.
That is not a coincidence. It is a pattern – through history and into the present. These paper cuts give shape to those who are missing. The woman without a name. Manifold. Present.
“Survival is your strength, not your shame.”
— Brittany Burgunder
Violation stays. Not only in memory, but in the body, in relationships, in the way you move through the world. The after-effects are invisible to others – but they are real.
Resilience is not about forgetting. It is about finding the strength to build a life with dignity, with what happened as part of who you have become.
“Every story I create, creates me.”
— Octavia E. Butler
We all carry stories with us. About moments that stayed. About encounters that mattered. About places where we felt at home – or did not.
The story shapes who we are. And perhaps it is not the answers we are looking for, but the place where we can be ourselves.
“...the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.”
— Maya Angelou
Words said in jest can leave marks. Heard often enough, you can begin to believe them. But those words say more about the person saying them – about the need to confirm their own place inside the norm.
To see the grotesque and laugh at it yourself – that is something else. That is owning it.
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
The body is never just a body. It is something we are measured by, commented on, and compared to ideals we never asked for. From childhood we learn what a body may be – and what it may not.
These standards settle. Not only in the mind, but in the way we see ourselves in the mirror.
“The self is a performed character
– a dramatic effect arising from a scene that is presented.”
— Erving Goffman, 1959
We all choose which sides of ourselves we show – at work, with family, in public. The way others see us shapes our self-worth. So we adjust, we calibrate, we present the version of ourselves that fits the situation.
Frontstage is the one we show the world. Backstage – in private, with those we trust – we can drop the performance. That is where we protect what we do not put on display. Who we really are.
