Underskog

Embroidered beekeeping suits, sporting graphic elements from the toilets of Kunstnernes Hus and ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur. Through weekly use, tags from the lower floor of KH and ROM are brought onto the roof and into the sun. The suits become time- and site related, functional documents, telling the story of galleries autopoiesis, the unwelcomed artist and the unintended gallery wall.
By becoming part of another work, the tags are appropriated and deprived their original self referentiality and territoriality, as well as their materiality and staticity. The added functionality allows an ongoing, dynamic relationship to audience outside the gallery, including commercial entities.
Through usage in commercial husbandry, they juxtapose the question of shared ownership to public space to that of authorship of expressions in public space, as well as bridge high and low art, the white cube and the green, the semi-private restroom and the semi-public rooftop.

The work will be exhibited in use at our apiary at Losæter, downtown Oslo, on August 21 at 17:00, sharp. Meeting point, allotment n.br 61.

Tags have been chosen naivly. Graffiti enthusiast and connoisseur Henriette Kværneng Johansen will offer a reading on site.

Related
Post-exhibit, TBA – Book launch at ROM, for Vigdis Storsveens city development project «Transformer».
Post-exhibit, TBA – Oslo Apiary will appear as panel members on a discussion on public space at ROM, as part of Vigdis Storsveens «Transformer#5».

Textile work by Klara Pousette, from concept by Oslo Byrøkt