Re-imagining the antagonist Duchess Raven Waves in the 80s cartoon Lady Lovely Locks, the installation Duke Raven Waves draws from memory, art history, nostalgia, and popular culture, in order to try to come to terms with the good versus evil dichotomy which we are all taught from the many prominent narratives in our childhood, and which seems to stay with us as we grow older. The textile, the sculpture, the video, and the sound; they all seem as if co-exist in a symbiotic play between the abstract and the figurative, and between the kinetic and the static. This state makes the installation seem as if freed from the constraints of both linear time and spatial orientation. In being so it tells a story of longing for transformation — of becoming and ceasing to be, and all the stages which occur in between — yet at the same time, of a self which tries to resist any form of change.
Selected Solo
Exhibitions
2022; To be titled; Podium Gallery; Oslo, Norway
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022; to be titled; Melk Galleri; Oslo, Norway
2022; to be titled; Hobusepe Gallery; Tallin, Estonia
2022; to be titled; Moumentum Gallery; Tartu, Estonia
2022; “Respwan”; Nitja Senter For Samtidskunst; Lillestrøm, Norway
Selected Grants
and Awards
2019; Cultiva Ekspress; Norway
2020; Cultiva Ekspress; Norway
2022; Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse; Sweden
2020; Kristiansand Kommune Kunsterstipend; Sweden
2021; Akademiens Reisestipend; Norway
2021; Akademiens stipend; Norway