Tickled Pink: Anna Aagaard Jensen & Yamuna Forzani

Gwen Park presents Tickled Pink, a duo exhibition by Anna Aagaard Jensen and Yamuna Forzani. Pink runs through the show as colour and as code. It is widely read as joyful, intimate, and feminine, yet it can just as easily signal attitude, theatre, or refusal. Here, the artists use that instability. Pink becomes the exhibition’s shared material and its pressure point, carrying two distinct statements in parallel, each formed through the artist’s own interpretation of what the colour can hold.

Anna Aagaard Jensen works with sculpture and installation. In this context, pink becomes an instrument of satire and revelation. It heightens the drama and pushes against expectation, especially where her works borrow the posture of masculinity. The figures, gestures, and scale of her sculptures carry weight, at times almost colossal, as if the language of the monument has been rerouted through manicure and blush. In Daddy is in attitude (2026), two bronze hands stage power as a pose. “Daddy” appears as stance rather than person, taking a detour through desire and authority with deliberate performance. In Virile Flower (2026), a mother flower and her daughters form a bouquet of potency. The title presses the word “virile” until it starts to sound strange, exposing how easily power slips into theatre.

Yamuna Forzani’s contribution holds pink differently. For her, it can signal utopia, a happy place shaped by openness, acceptance, and inclusion, where people are welcomed as their true selves. If Jensen uses pink to sharpen and resist, Forzani uses it to gather and include. Working through textile based processes, she builds works that propose belonging as something made, stitched, and sustained. The scale shifts from intimate to expansive, and the acts of knitting and sewing read as forms of connection, a quiet insistence on presence.

For Tickled Pink, Forzani presents Sirens, a colossal tapestry made in collaboration with Celine Hurka, alongside a group of smaller framed works. The frames combine ceramic elements and 3D printing, made by Forzani, extending her material language through structure, edge, and display. Together, Jensen and Forzani keep the exhibition taut. Tickled Pink makes room for delight, but refuses to leave it unexamined. It asks what colour is allowed to mean, how power is styled, and how a sense of self and community can be made visible.