SKROV
HUD SPACE, Stockholm
April 16–19, 2026

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SKROV is a solo exhibition by TERSA BRUTA, the studio practice of New York-based artist Nicole Elkins (b. 1996). The title refers to the Swedish word for the hull of a vessel, the structural shell that carries a body through pressure, impact, and exposure. It also denotes a carcass: what remains once life has moved on.

Working within this dual meaning, the exhibition unfolds between protection and vulnerability, engineered structure and organic residue. Surface is approached not as armor, but as a living, responsive layer shaped through repetition, touch, and time. “OBSESSIVE CONSUMPTION I" consists of 400 hand-cut soda cans, each link hand-linked, and took eight months to create.

Aluminum is cut, punched, and linked by hand, while organic elements are threaded, bound, and suspended. Materials associated with deterrence or harm are slowed through manual labor, their aggression redirected into connective forms. Chainmail panels of soda tabs behave like flexible tissue, while quilted fields of can-bottoms record pressure and abrasion, forming a surrogate flesh. Deer vertebrae appear not as ornament, but as structural truth: what persists once vulnerability has transformed.

Across the exhibition, metal and bone are pushed to their limits while remaining capable of adaptation, mirroring a body’s capacity to endure without hardening.

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