Exhibitions
Students from Bergen National Academy of the Arts
SUMMER EXHIBITION
30 May - 2 August 2008
We have invited Master and Bachelor students from Bergen National Academy of the Arts to exhibition at our summer show. The exhibition period is split in two:
Marte Røed, Bodil Gerber, Hilde K. Frantzen: 30 May - 15 June
Helene Horvei Mæhle, Ane Woll Godal, Anneli Sivertsen: 17 June - 2 August
30 May - 15 June:
Marte Røed
Audibility
Once I looked for signs. Listened for secret messages. Children are spiritual beings.
I had almost forgotten. Everything I knew.
It is like everything keeps a secret, in its own rhythm, its own pattern. The story is just there, floating in the air, growing in the trees, doesn’t wait for you to listen, is there all the time, is told continuously. By the trains, the crows, the roads, the elevators.
An installation made of pins attached direct to the wall.
Marte Røed, MA graduate Spring 2008
Bodil Gerber
Occhi
Craft techniques are good starting points for new forms of expressions. After learning the technical part, one may experience through investigations and experiments that something new and different arise, – in both content and aesthetical expressions. I get inspiration to work this way through the vigour in form and decor in popular art, the joy of crafts in earlier times and knowledge handed over from earlier generations. I wish to honour old craft by bringing it into a new art context.
It is about passage of time, about bringing something from past times, – about conserving and protecting. I wish to open up for something new, something different – a transformation and change, – over time.
The work is a combination of three dimensional sculptures in the space between ceiling, floor and wall, and two dimensional objects on wall. The technique is tatting in viscose thread combined with string.
Bodil Gerber, MA graduate Spring 2008
Hilde K. Frantzen
Hilde 35
There are no guarantees for the future. Anything can happen at any time.
If one could choose who to become in the future, who would one then become? I have staged myself in 2017. Through costumes, “actors”, embroideries and text, I tell the story about Hilde 35.
The work consists of photos hung on wall.
Hilde K. Frantzen, BA graduate Spring 2008
17 June - 2 August:
Helene Horvei Mæhle
Pain and pleasure
- Contrasts and similarities in connection with body/feelings.
“Pain is private and unique, something we experience alone and cannot fully express. But pain is at the same time a common human experience, something we can picture to ourselves, and identify with. (Kraft 2004:304)
Through embroideries and print on objects, associating to the homey, cosy and safe, I wish to focus on the painful and the pleasant. Are they that different? I believe that all experiences in life give it its content, being positive, negative, painful or pleasant. All parts of life are equally important to create complexity.
Helene Horvei Mæhle, BA graduate Spring 2008
Ane Woll Godal
The project is about encounters between textile and body and a great fascination for drapery and lines.
When it comes to my interest for textile on bodies it is not about clothes but how the scarf is hanging on the shoulder, or arranged around the neck; how the skirt moves while walking, and calms when sitting down. These are hasty moments that disappear. I have therefore searched for ways to capture them. And the lines have been a part of this.
Tapestry woven on a digital loom.
Ane Woll Godal, BA graduate Spring 2008
Anneli Sivertsen
Marigold
In my final project Marigold I have attempted to approach the form of the flower, its colour and surroundings. Through silkscreen printing I have wanted to unite humans with nature, through manipulating and intensifying nature’s own expressions. Flowers and repetitions reflect the identity in the project. The chose of colours is also an important part of my identity. Inspiration to the form and use of colours originate from childhood memories from my home district; coast and fjords in Indre Billefjord, Porsanger municipal in Finmark.
The work consists of fabric printing on cotton fabric.
Anneli Sivertsen, BA graduate Spring 2008