Ovartaci
Ovartaci was the artistic name of the Danish visual artist Louis Marcussen. Ovartaci was committed to the Risskov psychiatric hospital in 1929. She then had a sex change operation in 1957. She lived and worked in the institution for fifty-six years.
Ovartaci's phantasmagoric work features numerous female and animal figures set within an abundance of symbols, interiors, and landscapes. These figures are invested with a sense of identification that seems to defy the divide between real life and the realm of art. In 2018 an expansive exhibition entitled "" included a survey of the artist's work, as well as homages and related works by contemporary artists.
