Artist talk:

Rebecca Ackroyd
and Charles Teyssou

This conversation brings together artist Rebecca Ackroyd and curator Charles Teyssou in the context of Stavanger Secession 2026 – To Live and Think Like Pigs. The discussion explores Ackroyd’s sculptural practice and its engagement with architecture, the body, and the psychological dimensions of constructed environments. Working across sculpture, installation, and drawing, Ackroyd often creates spaces that evoke containment, tension, and latent violence. Her works stage encounters between organic forms and industrial materials, producing environments that oscillate between familiarity and unease. Within the conceptual framework of To Live and Think Like Pigs, these spatial structures resonate with the exhibition’s reflections on the management of bodies, the production of shame, and the systems of control embedded within modern architecture and infrastructure.

• Rebecca Ackroyd, artist (b. 1987, United Kingdom)
• Charles Teyssou, Stavanger Secession Artistic Director