Enter the Mythcode: Digital Ritual in Thorvaldsen’s Temple
When ancient sculpture meets spectral code, the result is ENTER AFTERLIFE—a sensorial deep-dive through light, sound, and myth at Thorvaldsen’s Museum.
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Digital myth crashes into immersive sound in O Future’s ENTER AFTERLIFE. Inside the neoclassical splendor of Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen, something ancient shimmers through something new. Not a voice, but a memory—borrowed and refracted. This is no exhibition. It’s a solo ritual. You enter it alone.
The artist duo O Future turn the museum’s marble corridors into a dreamscape of projections, music, and coded light. The result? A mythological simulation—part hallucination, part game level.
Echoes of Hades, Pulses of Elysium
The sculptures don’t move, but everything around them pulses. Digital drawings slide across marble and wall, flickering gods into ghosts. “We imagined the museum as a passage,” says Katherine Mills Rymer. “A space that honours the past and also opens toward other realities.”
These realities play like levels in a game: mirrored tasks, surreal portals. There are no final bosses—just rhythm, mood, and motion. We aren’t watching. We’re inside it.
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Get Started NowHere, death is no endpoint. It’s a sleek interface. O Future invites visitors into a storyline without answers, where ancient afterlives meet modern simulation theory and the mythmaking mechanics of video games. Life as a level. Death as an upgrade. But this isn’t a joke. The stakes feel real.
Sound as Soul
This isn’t a soundtrack. It’s a sonic summoning. Drawing on instruments held by the museum’s marble deities—Apollo’s lyre, Mercury’s flute—O Future crafts spectral compositions that shake the floor.
“We composed the musical work for the opening specifically for the museum’s grand hall, where the acoustics are so extreme that the music has to be tailored to the space. But once you do that, the room becomes a collaborator—amplifying every feeling and idea you’re trying to express.”
— Jens Bjørnkjær
The sound moves with the space. It’s emotional, electric, and architectural. With Jens’ fusion of classical and avant-electronic technique, it’s less about looking back and more about feeling through.
Layers of Myth, Refracted
Like the sensory worlds of teamLab or Refik Anadol, ENTER AFTERLIFE doesn’t sit inside the museum—it is the museum. But instead of pure spectacle, it taps into something deeper. A kind of psychological dig through layered belief systems.
You leave with more questions than answers. And that’s the point.
One Night, One Ritual
On May 17, the museum goes full transformation: dark temple mode. Sculptures animate with projections, guests recline across the floor, myth and frequency weaving a surreal opera. You’re not decoding. You’re dissolving.
ENTER AFTERLIFE Is Not an Exhibition
From May 18 to June 29, 2025, Thorvaldsens Museum becomes a threshold. The opening night on May 17 is part of Art Matter Festival. Free to attend. No signup. Just show up—and enter the code.
