HEIMAT / HIRAETH

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Heimat: A german word with no equivalent translation to english—or any other language—which meanning points toward a human beings connection to a social unit, a home, or a homeland.

Hiraet: A Welsh word with no equivalent translation to english—or any other language—which meanning points toward a longing for a home, a nostalgia, a going back to where one believes one comes from.

The exhibition HEIMAT/HIRAETH at KABUSO 7th of February – 1st March 2015 is an exploration into the concept, or rather idea of home, taking as its starting point both the idea of home-place as a physical landscape, and the two untranslatable words Heimat and Hiraeth which points toward the more emotional, historical, and cultural understanding of home. Between the physical home-place and the two untranslatable terms, Marius Moldvaer wishes´s to discuss how one can recognize oneself in a landscape, how one can feel a belonging to a physical piece of land, long to go back there, and, at the same one can understand home as something altogether intangible, without borders, and a physical body as such. This twofold understanding of home is what Marius Moldvaer wants to bring together in the exhibition HEIMAT/HIRAETH, as he believes that an understanding of home solely as a physical landscape, or a intangible feeling will only provide half an answer; it is through an understanding of home as both a landscape and an intangible feeling that we can begin to explore what the idea and significance of home actually is.

“Marken frelste han”

Knut Hamsun, Markens Grøde

“How far we all come. How far away we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it´s good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what´s it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what´s it all for?”

James Agee, A death in the Family

Marius Moldvær (b. 1985) holds a Bachelor degree in Photography from Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and a Master´s degree in Critical Theory and Creative Research from the Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, OR. Moldvaer´s visual undertakings are conducted in the intersection between nature and culture, where his works become an interpretation of landscape; how it appears as a physical body, how it is shaped by human interaction, and finally, how it is constructed culturally and mentally.

HEIMAT/HIRAETH opens on the 7th of February 13:30 at Kunsthuset KABUSO (Hardangerfjordvegen 626, 5610 Øystese). From Bergen you can take bus no. 925 toward Øystese from Bergen Busstasjon 11:50, buses back to Bergen from Øystese departs at 15:35 and 17:25. More information on how to get there, other times, etc. can be found at skyss.no

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