Text written by Curators and Kunsthal Charlottenborg‍ ‍The breath of Thursday A photographic triptych unfolds across eight meters, flanked by a poem on the wall by the artist herself. A soil terrain runs through all three panels, pointing to something foundational, to what lies beneath every surface beneath our feet. For the first time, Popovic works with the depiction of human figures, bringing her longstanding practice into direct encounter with people. Her work has always moved through atmospheric modes - attuned to emotional transitions, to the in-between states that resist clear definition, to moments that have not yet taken shape. Here, that ambiguity meets staged photography. The human presence and the arranged scenario form an image carefully orchestrated down to the smallest detail, while also derived from the deep emotions evoked by the story it builds on. The scene draws on a memory from the artist’s mother’s childhood: each Thursday, the family dressed in their finest and gathered for a lavish dinner - unobserved, enclosed within a private domestic sphere. From this intimate setting, the work expands outward; how we imagine ourselves as families, how we build facades, as individuals, in relations and how we distance ourselves from each other by doing so. The triptych and poem gesture toward what lies in between - the parts of a story that are never quite told.