Best Friend Ring (2019)  

A collaboration between the internationally renowned photographer Lærke Posselt and Molly Haslund.

Our work for Transitions consists of two parts: a photograph and a sculpture. Both depict a ring of friends, but between the two parts of the work there is a dimensional shift, and neither ring fits.
In the field of tension between the two parts, we put the transitions of the friendship in a questioning position: When do we become colleagues, when do we become friends - and when do we grow apart?

Transitions // Transitions
10 May 2019 - 29 September 2019
The Women's Museum Aarhus

Together with a number of professionals and artists, Kvindemuseet Aarhus is creating an interdisciplinary women's life festival and art exhibition about gender, body and transitions in women's lives. 

The burden of cultural history
Women's transitions have historically and culturally been problematised. Through the eyes of the outside world, transitions and the female body have often been reduced to something shameful, sinful, medically imperfect or inferior. Women have experienced being categorised as sick and weak as a result of 'fluctuations and imbalances', and instead of strength and vitality, there has been talk of unpredictability and even hysteria.

Women's own experiences and awareness of their bodies and transitions, on the other hand, have often been invisible, perhaps even considered invalid, and have rarely been articulated in an edifying way. The view of the outside world and of earlier times that women are at the mercy of their "hormones" and that they are unpredictable if they do not radiate harmony and balance has taught many to keep quiet in order to avoid condemnation and ridicule.

http://kvindemuseet.dk/udstilling/overgange-transitions/

Best Friend Ring 
Best Friend Ring is a work made in a collaboration between Molly Haslund and photographer Lærke Posselt for the exhibition Transitions at the Women's Museum in Aarhus in 2019. 
On the floor lies an oversized ring - a bedt friend ring adorned with a red heart. On the wall hangs a sober photograph framed in a dark passe-partout and black frame. From the photograph, a woman (Molly Haslund) looks out at us with an unsentimental gaze. Her hands rest calmly on her shoulders, like the hint of an embrace, and on the outer joint of the ring finger of one hand, sits the twin of the best friend ring on the floor.
The ring has become too small to fit properly on the finger, and the proportion of the ring on the floor to the ring in the photograph evokes both the notion of the emotional weight of the child's experience of friendship and the passage of time, which requires reconfigurations of the friendship as the transitions from childhood and puberty to adolescence and adulthood propel us into different life trajectories. 
Some friendships survive, others are lost and new ones are formed. There are certain emotional relationships that are particularly valued in our culture, especially relationships with parents, lovers, spouses and children. What they have in common is that they are figurations of the nuclear family. The close relationship between girlfriends is regarded as secondary in the normative life course - as something you grow out of. Here, there is emotional initimity and grief, which are not weighted according to the same scale, but which are often decisive in the individual's life. 
In the field of tension between the two rings, artist colleagues Molly Haslund and Lærke Posselt put the transitions of the friendship relationship in a questioning position: When do we become colleagues, when do we become friends - and when do we grow apart?