ENTER AFTERLIFE Decodes Myth, Mortality, and Media
At Thorvaldsen’s Museum, O Future’s audiovisual installation reimagines death and divinity through the intersecting lenses of mythology, gaming, and simulation theory.
In ENTER AFTERLIFE, O Future transforms Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen into an immersive hypothesis—where myth, mortality, and media converge. What emerges is not an exhibition, but a system of thresholds: a multi-sensory meditation on digital ritual, embodied memory, and speculative belief.
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Get Started NowInside the neoclassical halls, O Future deploys sound, light, and motion to reframe the museum not as a static archive, but as an active site of myth-making.
Echoes of Hades, Pulses of Elysium
Digital projections flicker across marble statues, destabilizing classical forms and inviting reinterpretation. “We imagined the museum as a passage,” says Katherine Mills Rymer. “A space that honours the past and also opens toward other realities.”
The installation functions like a narrative architecture—layered with metaphors drawn from video games and afterlife literature. Viewers navigate environments designed more for questioning than for conclusion.
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This is not death as cessation, but death as interface: a node between ancient cosmologies and contemporary simulation theory, including frameworks like the mythographic logic of games.
Sound as Invocation
Composed specifically for the museum’s sculptures, the sonic layer is both responsive and resonant. Apollo’s lyre and Mercury’s flute reappear in new forms—distorted, submerged, electrified.
“Once you tailor sound to the space, the room itself responds. It starts amplifying every intention,” says composer Jens Bjørnkjær.
Jens brings a hybrid sensibility—classical nuance meets avant-electronic precision. What results is a sound ecology in active collaboration with the architecture.
Installation as Inquiry
Rather than overwhelm with spectacle, ENTER AFTERLIFE—like projects by teamLab or Refik Anadol—proposes immersive art as philosophical inquiry. Visitors exit not with answers, but with expanded interpretive bandwidth.
A Singular Ritual
On May 17, the installation activates in full. Projected mythologies flow across ceiling vaults, visitors recline in immersive audio. This is ritual, not recital.
Initiation Over Exhibition
ENTER AFTERLIFE runs from May 18–June 29, 2025, at Thorvaldsens Museum. The May 17 opening is part of Art Matter Festival. Admission is free. No registration required.
