Laila Egbers

Deliquescence (jun-jul, 2026)

Deliquescence depicts a human head, slowly dissolving and decomposing, like a salt rock formation melting away.

Skin, veins, and blood drip into the silence, making way for the endless structure spiralling deeper down to the core, into dark cavities, too vast to make out what may, or may not, be lingering in the depths.

This sculpture explores the inner world of liminal dreams that is burrowing within every single one of us, twisting and growing like a creature that infests our minds after dark.

Where do we end and does this parasite begin, if we can never tell with certain conviction whether the world you are seeing in this very moment, is an illusion or not?

Bathing in Drowning (apr-jun, 2026)

Bathing in Drowning is a symbiosis of two different tragic love stories, Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Little Mermaid, merging together in their final scene.

The Little Mermaid in the ocean, dissolving into seafoam scattered across the waves, Ophelia floating in a stream surrounded by flowers.

The story of Ophelia takes place in the organs of the human part of the anatomy, whereas the Little Mermaid exists in the structure within the fishtail bursting out from the water.

This work explores love and heartbreak, and the strange love for heartbreak, as melancholy can be oddly poetic and appreciated for its tragic beauty.

The Autopsy (jul-okt, 2025)

The Autopsy centres around Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, utilizing the theme of a confusing, dreamlike world paired with childlike innocence. Wonderland does not exist as a dream or different reality but is physically growing and twisting within Alice herself.

The work focusses on the act of the autopsy itself. While cold, clinical hands dissect and remove, the painting depicts the experience of having the inner world violated and broken into new shapes according to the expectations and desires of others. The revealed anatomy shows the uniqueness of a person that is slowly being degraded, gradually dismantled through a process over which the individual had no control.

This picture is shaped by individual experiences and explores the psychological consequences of this inability to intervene. The grief of witnessing one’s authentic self being taken apart, the feeling of betrayal and the quiet yet consuming resentment that follows.

At the centre of the body, planted between the organs, there is an orb. Inside, the figure of Alice spiralling into dissolution, vaporizing into the void.

The painting invites viewers to ponder the vulnerability of the worlds we carry within us, and what remains when someone decides to forcibly rewrite one.

Tearing Silk Threads (mar-apr, 2026)

Tearing Silk Threads is a smaller piece that focusses on the story of Cinderella, depicting her silk gown flowing like ripples into the dark.

The dress is the physical manifestation of her true identity growing out from the intricate world and story inside of her after years of repression, like spider’s silk threads woven into a beautiful structure surrounding them.

It symbolizes the flow of a single moment of creation and the passion of true self-expression.

It transforms her into a beautiful phantom, untouchable for what once held her back.

Beauty in Withered Roses (dec 2025-jan 2026)

Beauty in Withered Roses utilizes the widely known image of Sleeping Beauty, wound up in a deadly slumber, covered in roses. Imagine their overwhelming scent in the air, preserving her in the moment forever.

After countless years, she remains the same, similar to how dried roses never lose their elegance. Inside of her, the story of her life unfolds, but it breaks up and distorts the further down you go, like she is being consumed from the inside out.

The piece is musing the beauty that lies within death, in an endless frozen moment where the only living thing is complete and utter silence that slowly eats away at everything.

It is a picture of contrast between the horrors of death and the conflicting grace that lies within it.

Don't look above (okt 2025-jan 2026)