This time too will pass
2023 Lille Kabelvåg Gallery and Museum DUO w/ Steffen Henriksen
We explore how we can use and further develop the inherent history, form and materiality of objects. We further examine how the narrative and experience of both images and sculptural objects influence each other.
The works often originate from the naturally created such as stones, roots, branches and twigs. Other objects are taken from nature, but have already been processed. What they have in common is that they are taken from our surroundings, carefully processed and assembled in new, unexpected combinations. In this way, the objects are given new content in a new context. Driftwood, an old branch, stones, plastic. What is processed and what is natural? The works invite the viewer into a world where the boundaries between the natural and the man-made are erased. The objects and some images have undergone transformations, both as part of the course of nature, physically by being processed, and in terms of content by moving from landscape to gallery space. What happens when driftwood from regulated ponds is placed on piles of reinforcing iron and a base of concrete? And what happens when a dead sparrow is depicted and screen-printed? The materials and the photographed insist on being seen anew, in a completely new way. The project can be read as a commentary or protest against the consumer society and how we humans are destroying the nature around us.
Read in such a context, the driftwood sculptures on rebar form a chorus that silently but powerfully protests against the exploitation of the pond they once belonged to.
Our use of nature and the landscape is connected to recreation, expeditions and public health. By using nature and the landscape as a backdrop, aspects of consumption and imprinting are illuminated in a poetic way. The photographs that alternate between the staged human being who simply is, and the documentary testimony of intervention form a framework that can illuminate current issues about nature and culture.
