Aksel Ree
No Music Left
2019—2024
painted wood, brass pedals and marble sculpture
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The installation 'No Music Left' features a set of piano pedals suspended from the gallery ceiling accompanying a marble sculpted severed left foot. The piece references the artist’s late father, a classical pianist, whose absence profoundly impacted Aksel Ree’s childhood and adulthood. The fragment of the musical instrument, now rendered silent, extends to monumental heights and suggest a state of limbo between presence and absence. This sense of suspension in time relates to themes of detachment and disconnection and together with the marble severed foot evoke loss and memory, while also conveying the weight of unresolved grief. In the installation, Ree captures the silence that follow loss, turning personal mourning into an exploration on absence and remembrance.