AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP in Stavanger, Norway.
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40 x 32 x 41 cm.
Acrylic on handmade MDF wooden plates.
Pure wool, felted (hair)
The benches represent the bereaved, who are grieving. They stand bent in a bridge, with holes in their stomachs. Can they carry anyone other than themselves if someone sits on them? An extraordinary weight on their bodies.Is the chapel experienced as spacious and receptive enough to grieve? Or do you feel under pressure, to stay sharp in the serious moment. Do you get to let the emotions you really feel free, in such a vulnerable and violent moment as a funeral is? A kind of claustrophobic experience, where you CAN cry, but preferably quietly and hidden... Shhh!Inspired by old toys and dolls from the 60s and 70s. The motifs are designed and illustrated by me.They also consist of identical hand-painted ornaments inspired by Norwegian «rosemaling», which are intended to symbolize how repetitive funeral traditions are for all of us. We all do them pretty similar. We perceive grief individually, at the same time as it is so general.The blue «rosemaling» is also a visual representation of the «BLUES» we feel inside us. How it swirls and moves in the body.
This piece was for my solo exhibition «a SOFT DEATH, in general», at Bryne Kunstforening (18.04-10.05)
About the exhibition (in Norwegian):
"Utstillinga spring ut av sterke kjensler og inntrykk etter fleire dødsfall i nære relasjonar. Eg har fordjupa meg i tradisjonar kring bisetjing og død, og vekslar mellom perspektivet til den etterlatne og den som skal døy, enten ufrivillig eller frivillig. Eg har utforska både dei fysiske spora dei pårørande sit att med, som arvegods og gjenstandar frå dødsbu, og dei psykiske spora: sorg, sakn, minne, frustrasjon og ønskje. I arbeida mine har eg nytta materiale og teknikkar med symbolsk tyngd, med utgangspunkt i det MJUKE og komfortable tekstile, som ein kontrast til kor «hard» døden kan opplevast. Eg vil tru min bakgrunn innan illustrasjon bringer inn nokon uvanlege visuelle verkemiddel og symbolikk, med mykje innslag av satire.
Eg stiller ut arbeid i tekstil, tre, perler, silketrykk og video-performance."
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