"Our bodies, perceptions of space, connections, and the environment are engaged in constant and close relationships with infrastructure, those systems, at micro and macro scales, through which energy, goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. Vibe Overgaard’s practice charts such circulations, linking economic and industrial production chains with the flows of weather and waterway systems, the extraction and distribution of resources, and human labour and migration. Her modular construction Industrial Drifter (2025) is a hybrid between the skeleton of a ship and an industrial machine, visualizing trade routes and intertwined industries in the region, and the changing dimensions of manual labour. Woven through the mechanical forms and stretched to the ceiling, lines of fibre evoke the spinning of industrial looms and transfers from one point to the next. Together, seemingly disparate economies and ecologies are literally and figuratively threaded together into a charged circuit. A pair of associated works, Dead Reckoning Globe (2025) and Dead Reckoning Scandinavian Corridor (2025) repeat the wooden modules to frame a set of graphic images depicting the Öresund, its sailing routes, and its place within a global network. The images juxtapose the abstraction of linear perspective with capitalism’s economic paths and causal logics, drawing attention to the construction of lines on our tumultuous world.  This mechanics of vision, a central viewpoint of mastery and subjecthood, also holds the idea of a place from where something is seen, a situated viewpoint that implicates the local within global circuits of exchange."
- Curator Matthew Post, 2025