Meridian Current / 2021-22

You place three metronomes on a single surface. A cacophony of clicking ensues; a mess of different tempos. The chaos slowly subsides, and you observe that they gradually align into a single consistent beat. 

Meridian current is an ongoing examination of distance, in relation to landscape and place. Distance in geographical and cultural, emotional and perceptual terms. It is a reaction against a fragmented reality; where the future is reserved a few culturally elevated centers, and which leaves previously active landscapes redundant and passive. An understanding that a topographical systematization reduces landscapes into isolated instances, and ignores what must be between them. Through an exploration of perspectives and reference points, the works look for a new meridian line. A new point of reference from which it will be possible to understand landscapes in context of each other, and therefore also the areas in between.

Exhibited:
Folk Tror Foxtrott / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 21.04-01.05.2022
Meridian Current / KHIO, Oslo, 02.03-06.03.2022

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Stalag303 2VK / 2020-22

Seen from the north, a white pole marks a no longer impenetrable barrier. In between the bushes signs of what was once inside can be glimpsed. Red an orange tones mix with the weather worn grass. A rough gravel path continues southward.

A ruin in a landscape generates an experience of multiple pasts and presents. The material manifestations entropy, in combination with the other impulses in the landscape, highlights a dissonance between what the landscape has been and can potentially be. Ruins are locked into the role of historical artefact, while other elements are allowed agency. Reduced to documents of something happening.
Stalag303 2VK explores alternative landscape (de-)constructions, through tactics of transcription and transmutation. Elements are revealed as resonances, allowing for new avenues of interaction. The differing elements potential is released, encouraging the creation of new landscapes.

Exhibited:
Oslo Negative 2022, OFKS / Gamle Deichmanske, Oslo, 23.09-16.10.2022
Prosjektrommet TRÅKK / Galleri BKD, Vestfold Kunstsenter, Tønsberg, 25.-28.08.2022

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Oblique Fields / 2019-22

Granted the right resolution, any whole is constituted by a multitude of smaller individual parts. Togetherness is dependent upon perceptive resolution. Oblique Fields explores this relationship, as an investigative path into the construction of meaning. Imagining it as a network of separate interconnected nodes; limited in their singularity, yet allowing in their togetherness for nuance to be construed.

Through the employment of photographic magnification, and alternative methods of graphic reproduction, these networks are spatialized. As fields of ink in reproduction, as well as through the geographical references contained in the photographs. Creating a link between subjective constructions of meaning, and the experience of navigating space.

Exhibited:
Faux Fair Pilot / KHIO, Oslo, 30.03.2022

Sheep grace / 2019-21

Turning east, I’m greeted by the sight of foaming waves in the distance. The wind is a strong south-westerly, almost approaching a gale, and the nearby grass is thrashing about. Almost at a 60 degree angle, they form what appears as an impenetrable mass, hiding all signs of any path through what, due to the recent snow melt, can only be described as a swamp. Small, barely discernible footpaths traverse the grass, zig-zagging between particularly wet areas. Carefully stepping around a small pond, I see a bit of wool caught in the sedges bordering the water.

By retracing a walk in text and photographs Sheep grace merges the morphology of multiple landscapes, physical and imagined. Allowing an exploration of space’s potential for a multiplicity of experienced realities. Disparate narratives and perceptions emerge from engagement with the walk itself, the walk retraced in memory as well as the photographic interpretation of the space. Forming a loosely knitted network spanning multiple temporalities, which itself is experienced as new landscape simultaneously geographically grounded and fictitious.