Alexander Tovborg’s 'amor fati' is a series of woodcuts and monotypes centred around the Roman Catholic saint and French national heroine Joan of Arc.

The latin expession 'amor fati' (engl. love of fate) was coined by Friedrich Nietzsche and describes a state of mind of unconditional acceptance of life’s circumstances. All events—good or bad—are concidered predetermined. For Tovborg, Joan of Arc exemplifies this state of mind. She is an individual who fully realizes her fate by living it out to the fullest. Her dramatic life story and later elevation to the status of a Catholic saint and national heroine turned her life into a universal narrative of fundamental human questions. Tovborg’s artistic practice draws from such questions through the investigation of religious narratives, myths, and symbols.

Tovborg’s unique visual universe unfolds in ornamental shapes and rich colour combinations. His woodcuts are executed from several different wooden plates, allowing him to build up motives with complex colour combinations in several layers. The works from his series of monotypes are all interrelated. Monotypes are unique works. Tovborg interconnected the individual works of his series by making the residue ink from one work part of the next.